Jessie works at a car manufacturing plant. One day she installed a total of 46 axles, 2 in each car she worked on. She wants to know how many cars she installed axles on. You can write an equation that relates the total number of cars, the total number of axles, and the number of axles installed per car. This equation will have two known quantities and one unknown quantity.

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Vocaloid · Answer

To write the equation:

She installs 2 axles per car, so you would multiply 2 * (# of cars) to get the total # axles, right? can you try picking variables to represent the # of cars and the # of axles, and then finishing the equation?

izabelDB · Answer

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