Question

Tanya distributes pencils to students in her class for an upcoming test. The number of pencils she hands out is given by the equation p = 3s, where p is the number of pencils and s is the number of students. If there are 16 students in Tanya's class, how many pencils did she distribute?

3



8



18



48

Answer 1

p = 3s......p = # of pencils and s = # of students

if there were 16 students......so s = 16
p = 3s
p = 3(16)
p = 48 <=== 48 pencils