Question

A problem states: "There are 2 more horses than cows in a field. There are 16 animals in the field in all. How many horses are there in the field?"

Let h represent the number of horses.

Which equation represents the situation?

2h + 2 = 16
2h−2=16
2(h+2)=16
h + 2 = 16

Answer 1

So, if we represent the number of horses as 'h', we know the number of cows is 'h-2', since there are 2 more horses than cows.
Now, if we add the number of horses (h + h - 2), what do we get?

Answer 2

i-i dont know i dont understand

Answer 3

im really confused

Answer 4

Ok, let's start from the beginning.
h is the number of horses. Let's make up some other variable, c, which stands for the number of cows.
Now, the question says "there are 2 more horses than there are cows." That means that h=c+2, right? We can subtract both sides of this equation by 2 to get h-2=c.
So, now we know that c = h - 2
So, h + c is the same as h +(h-2), once we replace 'c' with (h-2)
And when we combine the like terms (the h's), we get
2h - 2.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Yeah no worries. Although if you post them, someone else might get to them before I can :p

Answer 8

ok thank you i honestly appreciate it

Answer 9

No problem. I'm glad to help!