Question

Ben is growing pepper plants. Each plant has 6 peppers. One morning he picks 5 peppers to make salsa. Write an expression for the number of peppers still on p plants.

Answer 1

you have the variable x = number of plants which is unknown, but each plant has 6 peppers, so you have 6x and you pick 5, the equation is
6x-5

Answer 2

or you can use p for plants, then you have the expression
6p - 5