Question

Robin can make 8 puppets with the material she already has. For each additional sheet of felt she buys, she can make 5 more puppets. What is an equation that shows how the total number of puppets she can make, y, depends on the number of sheets of felt she buys?

Answer 1

Let the number of sheet she buy be x.
Therefore the equation is
y = 5x + 8

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