Question

8 baskets have some apples in them, and the same number of apples are in each basket. 6 apples are added to each basket to make a total of 144 apples. What equation can go with this problem?

Answer 1

8(x + 6) = 144

Explanation:

We can start building this equation by making everything equal to 144 since the problem is representing the total number of apples:

? = 144

Next, we don't know how many apples are in each basket, so we can represent it with a variable, x.

Since 6 apples are added to each basket we will simply add 6 to the "x" amount of apples in each basket:

x + 6 = 144

Lastly, according to the scenario, we have 8 baskets, each holding "x" amount of apples plus the extra 6 that was added, so it will be multiplied:

8(x + 6) = 144