Question

Jasper has 7 more checkers left than Karen does.Jaspar has 9 checkers left. write and solve an addition equation to find out how many checkers Karen has left.

Answer 1

Well u just do 9+-7=2 checkers so Karen has 2 checkers left

Answer 2

As per the problem we have

Jasper has 7 more checkers left than Karen does.

Let Karen has x checkers.

It mean Jasper has
`(x+7)` checkers.

Now again from the problem we have

Jasper has 9 checkers left.

so we can write

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It mean karen has 2 checkers left.