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Tatiana wants to give friendship bracelets to her 32 classmates. She already has 5 bracelets, and she can buy

more bracelets in packages of 4.
Write an inequality to determine the number of packages, p, Tatiana could buy to have enough bracelets.

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4p+5=32 or 7 packages

I got this because there are 4 bracelets in one package and she doesn't know how many packages she needs so we put p for packages next to the 4 and you already have 5 so you add the 5 to it, all of that should come out to 32. If the equation wasn't what you were looking for you subtract 5 from 32 and get 27, then you divide 4 by 27 and you get 6.75, then you round it up and you get 7. The number of packages she needs is 7.

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