Question

Parker bought 4 times as many marbles as Molly. Cole bought 5 fewer marbles than Parker. If Molly bought p marbles, how many marbles did cole buy. Wouldn’t be 4p-5? If so, why? , and how do you solve it?

Answer 1

Kinda Hard to explain hope this helps

Explanation:

Lets say molly is 6 and parker bought 4 times as many then he bought 24 marbles.Then cole bought 5 fewer then parker so 24-5=19

the equation is 4(6)m=p(24) Cole p(24)-5=Cole

M=6