Question

On Saturday you catch insects for your science class Five of the insects escape. The remaining insects are divided into three groups to share in class.

Bach group has mine insects How many insects did you catch on Saturday
2 Solve the problem by working backwards
insects were caught on Saturday
Solve the equation
2
How does the answer to part (1) compare with the answer to part (2)?
The answer to part(a) is
the answer to part (1)

Answer 1

Answer:The number of insect catch on saturday is 27, 5 escape

Explanation:

so the number of insect or call X

X will divided 3 = 9 which is the bach group had

now if you wanted to know whats the total insect have we need to use 9 mutiply by 3 equal 27

next to find the number of x catch in saturday we need to plus five in since we lost 5 insect so plus toghether is equal 32 but the number of insect have is only 27 cause we lost 5