Question

William and Amy are stuffing envelopes for a charity. Today, William stuffed a total of 70 enveopes. This was 10 more than the number of envelopes that Amy stuffed. Write an equation showing the relationship between the numbers of envelopes that William and Amy both stuffed.
MY ANSWER: 70 + 10*2
Is it correct?

Answer 1

So, amy stuffed 10 less than william
William stuffed 10 more than amy.

Answer 2

I think a nice variable would come in handy in this equation.

Answer 3

So lets use X to represent the number that amy stuffed.

Answer 4

k

Answer 5

So first, lets do the math, and solve the equation

Answer 6

What short equation would be good to find the number that amy stuffed?

Answer 7

ummm 70-10=x

Answer 8

Correcto. It would be 70-10=60, which is amy's stuffed amount, but we're not done yet, we need to make it into a problem.

Answer 9

So if amy have 60 stuffed envelopes, and william have 70, let's make a good equation to show the relationship

Answer 10

Be sure to have 60 inside the equation!

Answer 11

@hartnn

Answer 12

70*60/2 i think

Answer 13

its wrong isn't it

Answer 14

"Write an equation showing the relationship between the numbers of envelopes that William and Amy both stuffed." This line confuses me a little now that I think about it, It's like they want you to make an equation with the total number of envelopes they both stuffed.

Answer 15

@Jhannybean , can you help a bit?

Answer 16

okay, so I just found out they want the total.

Answer 17

So let's try a different path to solve this equation

Answer 18

You're in algebra, correct?