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.
Calculate total muffins:
Total muffins = 2 muffins per student * 17 students
Total muffins = 34
Set up the equation using x for muffins:
x + 5 = 34
To Solve this equation for x, we type it in our search engine and we get:
x = 29
Calculate total muffins:
Total muffins = 2 muffins per student * 17 students
Total muffins = 34
Set up the equation using x for muffins:
x + 5 = 34
To Solve this equation for x, we type it in our search engine and we get:
x = 29