Question

At the school's holiday craft fair, Emily and her classmates get to make gingerbread houses. Their teacher divides a bag of licorice ropes evenly among the 8 students at the table. Each student gets 4 licorice ropes to decorate the roof of his or her gingerbread house.

Which equation can you use to find the number of licorice ropes r that came in the bag?
Solve this equation for r to find the number of licorice ropes that came in the bag.

Answer 1

32

Explanation:

we know that the teacher divides a bag of licorice, meaning that the teacher most likely used up all the licorice. We also know that 4 ropes were given to eachstudent and that there are 8 of them so 4 x 8=32

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