Question

Your father uses text messaging to communicate with his employees. If he sends an average of 17 text messages each day, how many more text messages does he send than you? Write an equation that contains the unknown value, x, and solve for the unknown value.

Answer 1

(dont take this as the definite answer pls i might be wrong)

17-y=x

let x represent how many messages he sends more than you

let y represent the number of messages you send

i hope this helps