Question

You are baking cookies for your class. There are 23 total students in your class and you have baked 12 cookies. Write and solve an equation to find the additional number x of cookies you need to bake in order to have 2 cookies for each student. Write your equation so that the units on each side of the equation are cookies per student.

Answer 1

To ensure each of the 23 students gets 2 cookies, you need to bake an additional 34 cookies.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many additional cookies you need to bake to have 2 cookies for each of the 23 students in your class, you can set up the following equation:

Let x be the additional number of cookies you need to bake. Since you have already baked 12 cookies, the equation to represent the total cookies needed is:

Current cookies + additional cookies = total cookies needed

12 + x = 2 × 23

The total number of cookies needed is twice the number of students because each student needs 2 cookies:

12 + x = 46

To solve for x, subtract 12 from both sides of the equation:

x = 46 - 12

x = 34

Therefore, you need to bake an additional 34 cookies.

Answer 2

For your first answer 2=x+5/17 your second answer is 29. This is because "x" is the number that you need to bake which is 29. Therefore, 31/17=2