Question

Kendal bought x boxes of cookies to bring to a party. Each boxes contain 12 cookies. She decided to keep 2 boxes for herself. She brings 60 cookies to the party. What equation can be use to find the number of boxes, x kendal bought

Answer 1

7 boxes

Explanation:

Let x represent the amount of cookies that was brought to the party by Kendall

Each box contain 12 cookies

= 12 × x

= 12x

Kendall keeps 2 boxes for herself

= 12 × 2

= 24

Kendall has 60 cookies which she took to the party

Therefore the question can be represented as follows

12x = 24+60

12x= 84

Divide both sides by the coefficient of x which is 12

12x/12= 84/12

x= 7

Hence Kendall brought 7 boxes