Question

You are baking cookies for your class. There are 23 total students in your class and you have baked 12 cookies. Write and solve an equation to find the

additional number x of cookies you need to bake in order to have 2 cookies for each student. Write your equation so that the units on each side of the
equation are cookies per student.

Answer 1

X=23(x2cookies per student)-12cookies

X=46-12cookies

X=34cookies

Where X is the additional amount of cookies to be baked.