Elijah's model is correct .
Elijah and Jonathan play on the same soccer team. They have played 3 of their 15 games.
x is the number of games that are left to be played.
Elijah and Jonathan have 12 games left on their soccer team.
Elijah and Jonathan both try to simulate the situation which are shown in figure.
Creating some model which look like a balance between quantities.
Elijah placed 3 cubes of value 1 and a cube of value x on one side of a balance.
On the other side Elijah placed 15 cubes.
The value of each cube = 1
so 15 [tex]\times 1 = 15[/tex] which are equal to total number of games.
Since 3 games are already played so on the left hand side
3 boxes of magnitude 1 each are placed.
[tex]x[/tex] is the number of games that are left.
Jonathan uses a table with three x values in a row and a 15 is the total number of games to be played are represented in the second row trying to model the same situation.
This table doesn't show the number of games left to play.
Which are 12 in number
According to Jonathan's model
[tex]3x = 15 \\x =5[/tex]
This does not model the number of games left which are 12 in number and hence
Jonathan's model does not explains the situation
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