Question

You are baking muffins for your class. There are 17 total students in your class and you have baked 5 muffins. Write and solve an equation to find the additional number x of muffins you need to bake in order to have 2 muffins for each student. Write your equation so that the units on each side of the equation are muffins per student.

Equation: []=2
Number of muffins: x=[]

Answer 1

since the classroom has 17 students and you need to bake 2 muffins for each, therefore:
total muffins needed=2*17=34 muffins
now, you have baked 5 muffins. The remaining number of muffins (x) can be calculated as follows:
x = total number of muffins - already baked
x = 34 - 5 = 29 muffins