Question

Leroy works part time for a moving company. One day he had to move 34 boxes from a truck to inside a house. After moving some boxes, he took a break and told his boss that he has only 15 more boxes to move. Write and solve an equation to find how many boxes Leroy moved before his break. show ALL work!

Answer 1

For this case we can do the following:

We have a total of boxes 34 and Leroy moves just 15

Then we canf find the remaining boxes with this operation:

15 + x= 34

Where:

x= number of boxes remaining

Solving for x we got:

x= 34-15= 19