Question

Andrew has three times as many pencils as Noah and five pens he has 17 pens and pencils altogether how many pencils does Noah have. Distributive property and solving equations

Answer 1

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Answer:

4

Explanation:

The distributive property does not appear to be involved in this question.

Let n represent the number of Noah's pencils. Then Andrew's total is ...

3n +5 = 17

3n = 12 . . . . . subtract 5 from both sides

n = 4 . . . . . . divide both sides by 3

Noah has 4 pencils.