Question

Josh bought some cases of water. Each case has 12 water bottles.

Which equation shows how many bottles of water Josh bought?

Use t to represent the total number of water bottles, and c to represent the number of cases bought.

A.
t =

B.
t = c – 12

C.
t = c + 12

D.
t = 12c

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

@Moji7029 ?

Answer 3

MMM

Answer 4

I think B but i'm still not that sure :/

Answer 5

No!

Answer 6

D

Answer 7

Lets say we have 4 cases of water bottles.....what would you do to figure out how many there were if you had 12 in each case?

Answer 8

by dividing

Answer 9

Okay we have 4 cases Lets say they all look the same size

Answer 10

Now there are 12 in each....... why would you divide?

Answer 11

How many are there in total........add 12 and 12 and 12 and 12 or you could ____ instead of adding? (fill in the blank)

Answer 12

@Moji7029 ?

Answer 13

I divide to put 12 into 4 cases.

Answer 14

No! You would multiply to get the total

Answer 15

So 4 times 12 is how many bottles you have in total

Answer 16

now if you replace 4 with c it would be c times 12 which would, like you said, lead you to the nswer of D

Answer 17

Hope that helps!