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each floor of a hotel has r rooms. on 8 floors, there are a total of 256 rooms. write an equation to represent this situation

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Answer:
8r=256


Explanation:

1. You have the following information given in the problem above:

- Each floor of the hotel has
r rooms.

- There are 256 rooms on 8 floors of the hotel.

2. Therefore, 256 rooms is the product obtained by multiplying 8 floors by the number of rooms in each floor (which is represented by
r). Then, you can write the following equation:


8r=256



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