Question

A problem states: "There are 5 more girls than boys at the party. There are 27 children at the party in all. How many boys are there at the party?" Let b represent the number of boys.

Which expression represents the number of girls?
Responses
5−b
b + 5
b−5
bx5

Answer 1

To represent the number of girls at the party, we need to add 5 to the number of boys (b) since there are 5 more girls than boys. Therefore, the expression that represents the number of girls is b + 5.