Question

Mike collects toy cars. he decides to put all of his toy cars in a line so that he can count them. the 9th car in line ends up being exactly at the middle of the line. how many toy cars does mike have?

Answer 1

If the 9th car is in the middle there would be 8 cars on either side so there would be 17 cars.

Answer 2

17 cars

Explanation:

Mike collects toy cars. He decides to put all of his toy cars in a line so that he can count them.

It is given that 9th car in the line ends up being exactly at the middle of the line.

This statement shows that before and after the middle car there were 8 cars.

So the cars in the line is 8 + 1(middle) + 8 = 17 cars

Mike have total 17 cars.