Question

The teacher has 5 glue sticks for every 2 highlighters for a project. If the teacher has 35 glue sticks, how many total highlighters does the teacher have?

Answer 1

14 highlighters.

Explanation:

This problem is explaining for every 2 highlighters, there's 5 glue sticks.

In order to find the amount of highlighters, we need to solve with the opposite.

For every 5 glue sticks, there's 2 highlighters.

Multiply the amount of glue sticks, and highlighters by 7:

Product: For every 35 glue sticks, there's 14 highlighters.