Question

A doughnut shop sells 132

doughnuts in an hour. During this hour, one customer buys a large box of 48
doughnuts, and the other customers buy boxes of 12
doughnuts.


Which equation could be used to find x
, the number of boxes of 12
doughnuts that were sold?

Answer 1

The equation to find the number of boxes of 12 doughnuts sold is 48 + 12x = 132, where x=7 represents the number of boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find x, the number of boxes of 12 doughnuts that were sold, we can set up an equation. We know that a total of 132 doughnuts were sold, and one customer bought a large box of 48 doughnuts.

The equation would be the number of doughnuts sold in the large box plus 12 times the number of the smaller boxes (represented by x) equals the total number of doughnuts sold.

So, the equation is 48 + 12x = 132.

To solve for x, you would subtract 48 from both sides to get 12x = 132 - 48 and then divide both sides by 12we get x=7