You are baking muffins for your class. There are 17 total students in your class and you have baked 5 muffins. Write and solve an equation to find the additional number x of muffins you need to bake in order to have 2 muffins for each student. Write your equation so that the units on each side of the equation are muffins per student.
2 muffins per student = 17*2 = 34 muffins.
We have an equation with a given 5 muffins, how much do we need (x) to get to 34 muffins (2 per student):
x + 5 = 34
To solve for x, we type this equation into our search engine and we get:
x = 29
2 muffins per student = 17*2 = 34 muffins.
We have an equation with a given 5 muffins, how much do we need (x) to get to 34 muffins (2 per student):
x + 5 = 34
To solve for x, we type this equation into our search engine and we get:
x = 29