Question

The puppy shelter where Clara works is moving to a new building. The rooms in the new building are built to hold 6 puppies each. Clara needs to figure out how many rooms she'll need to house a total of 78 puppies.

Use an equation to find the number of rooms Clara needs.

Answer 1

• Equation: 6x = 78
• Rooms: 13

Explanation:

Let the number of rooms is x.

Each room is built to hold 6 puppies, so x rooms hold 6x puppies.

The equation for this is:

• 6x = 78
• x = 78/6
• x = 13

And the solution is 13 rooms.