Question

Tom has three times as many action figures as Jerry. If Tom has 27 action figures, how many does Jerry have? Write an equation that represents the scenario. Then solve.

Answer 1

Jerry has 9 action figures.

Explanation:

Since Tom has three times as many action figures as Jerry, Tom has 3x action figures, where x is the number of action figures that Jerry has.

Since Tom has 27 action figures, we can say that 3x=27.

3x=27

x=9