Question

Art bought a 4 boxes of pens, but gave his friend Ben 8 pens, and now has a total of 112 pens. How many are in a box? Which of the following is the best equation for the problem?
Answer

a) 4X - 8 = 112

b) 4X + 8 = 112

c) X /4 - 8 = 112

d) 112 - X/4 = 8

Answer 1

Which makes the most sense to you? 4 is the total of boxes and x can be used to represent the total amount of pens. Take into account the 8 given away.

Answer 2

i dont get it.

Answer 3

The answer is A because 4x can be used to represent the total amount of pens given in 4 boxes. The situation states that 8 were given away, resulting in a total of 112. Therefore, 4x-8=122.

Answer 4

So... There are 4 boxes of pens so we represent each box of pen as a X
So when. We total to them it would be 4X okay?
When we takeout 8 pens from them so we would minus it with 8 so the equation becomes 4X-8
Now the total number of pens are 112. So the equation becomes
4X-8=112

Answer 5

oh ok thnx!

Answer 6

Just help the other people.