Question

Ahab has some baseball cards. Jim gave him 11,181 more baseball

cards. Now he has 17,379 total baseball cards.
Write an equation to represent the situation.

Answer 1

Ahab started with an unknown number of baseball cards (x), received 11,181 more, and ended with 17,379 cards. The equation to represent this is: x + 11,181 = 17,379. Solving for x, Ahab originally had 6,198 baseball cards.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem, we need to create an equation that represents the situation where Ahab has a certain number of baseball cards, and then he gets 11,181 more from Jim, resulting in a total of 17,379 cards. We use a variable to represent the number of cards Ahab had originally. Let's use x to represent this unknown number.

The equation that models this situation is:

x + 11,181 = 17,379

To find the number of cards Ahab had initially, we subtract 11,181 from both sides of the equation:

x + 11,181 - 11,181 = 17,379 - 11,181

x = 6,198

Ahab originally had 6,198 baseball cards.