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A ball box contains x soccer balls. The box contains 5 times as many softballs as soccer balls. Write an equation to represent the total number of softballs, y, in the ball box?
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A ball box contains x soccer balls. The box contains 5 times as many softballs as soccer balls. Write an equation to represent the total number of softballs, y, in the ball box?

User Dominik G
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X represents the soccer balls and y represents the softballs.
There are 5 times as many softballs than soccer balls.
5x would equal to the softballs.
So the equation would be:
5x=y
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y=5x is the correct equation
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