Question

A bakery cells chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies. Last week, the bakery sold a total of 166 cookies. The number of sugar cookies sold was 6 fewer than three times the number of chocolate chip cookies sold. Write an equation that can be used to represent this situation?

Answer 1

c + 3c - 6 = 166

Explanation:

Let c = number of chocolate chip cookies.

"The number of sugar cookies sold was 6 fewer than three times the number of chocolate chip cookies sold."

The number of sugar cookies sold is: 3c - 6

The total number of cookies sold is c + 3c - 6.

Last week, the bakery sold a total of 166 cookies.

c + 3c - 6 = 166