Question

Ginger bought 3 boxes of markers she gave 6 markers to her sister now ginger has 18 markers how many markers were in each box explain how you found the answer

Answer 1

8 markers.

Explanation:

Let x be the number of markers in each box. We have been given that Ginger bought 3 boxes of markers, so the number of markers in 3 boxes will be 3x.

After giving 6 markers to her sister now Ginger has 18 markers. We can represent this information in an equation as:

`3x-6=18`

Now let us solve for x.

Adding 6 to both sides of equation we will get,

`3x-6+6=18+6`

`3x=24`

Dividing both sides of our equation by 3 we will get,

`(3x)/(3)=(24)/(3)`

`x=(24)/(3)`

`x=8`

Therefore, there were 8 markers in each box.