Question

a boy has d dollars he buys n notebooks at c dollars each how many dollars does he have left

Answer 1

how much does he spend on the notebooks?

Answer 2

no, the whole point of this is to avoid numbers.... he got N notebooks at $C each

Answer 3

your teacher is an isiot then.... hope you have better luck next semester
math has almost nothing to do with numbers... you are thinking about arithmatic

Answer 4

Well, to solve, yes, but to simply write an equation, not really. Let's say he buys one notebook, he'll be short of c dollars, so he'll have d - 1*c dollars. If he bought 2, he'd have d - 2*c. So now, if he bought n, what would it look like?

Answer 5

It's a problem setup exercise. No need for numbers. If m is the amount of money he has after buying n notebooks for c dollars each is

m = d - nc

Answer 6

does anyone know how to do the problem step by step

Answer 7

animal just did it step by step

Answer 8

This is about reading the question and translating it into an algebraic equation.