Question

Tomorrow, Mrs. Wendel's class will be using toothpicks for a science project. Each student must use at least 6 toothpicks for the project.

Mrs. Wendel knows that there is already a bag of 50 toothpicks in the class storage room. She plans to buy x additional toothpicks this afternoon to make sure her class will have enough.

If her class has 28 students, which number sentence represents this situation?

Answer 1

She would need 168 toothpicks. Since she already has 50, she will need 118 more toothpicks.