Question

The number of dvds Danielle owns is four times the number that Ben owns.If Danielle owns 92 dvds , how many does Ben own?

What is the equation?
What does x equal?

Answer 1

Ben owns 23 DVDs. The equation is 4x ."x" equals 23

Solution:

Given, The number of dvds Danielle owns is four times the number that Ben owns.

Given that Danielle owns 92 dvds

Now, let the number of DVDs own by Ben be "x"

Then number of DVDs own by Danielle will be "4x"

Then, according to given information,

4x = 92

x = 23

Hence, the equation is 4x = 92, where x = 23

So Ben owns 23 DVDs