Question

Tamera is buying party favors. She chooses pencil erasers that are shaped like pieces of sushi. Each package she buys contains the same number of erasers. She buys 2 packages and gets a total of 8 erasers. Solve the equation 2x = 8 to find the number of erasers, x, in each package

Answer 1

All what you have to do is divide the 8 by 2 to find x.

2x = 8

/2 l /2

x = 4

There are 4 erasers per package.