Question

Jill is baking cookies for a bake sale. She needs a total of 126 cookies for the bake sale. She has already baked 4 dozen cookies. How many more cookies does she need to bake to meet her goal Write and solve an equation using a variable for each word problem.

Answer 1

Jill has 78 more cookies to bake.

Explanation:

I know because 4 dozen cookies is 48 and 48 +78=b and b=126

Answer 2

She needs to bake 78 more cookies to meet her goal.
126= 48 + x