Question

Joe stacks the cans in the Pitch Ball game. The bottom row has 12 cans. Each row has 2 fewer cans that the row below it. How many cans will be in the fifth row?

Answer 1

draw it out..

Answer 2

draw 12 cans on the bottom and go up taking away 2 cans each time

Answer 3

so in row 5, there's 4 cans