Question

Mrs Smith has 12 times as many markers as color pencils the total number of markers and colored pencils is 78 how many markers does Mrs Smith have

Answer 1

x = markers
y = colored pencils

12x = y

x= 72
y = 6

Okay, so what I did was divide 78 by 12 (to find the number of colored pencils) which gave me 6.5. You can't have half a colored pencil, so I rounded the number down to get 6. To find the number of markers, I multiplied 12 and 6 (12x = 6) which gave me 72. To check my answer I added the two amounts, 72 + 6, which gave me 78.