Question

Katie gives Maggie half of her pencils. Maggie keeps 5 pencils and gives the rest to jamil. Write an expression for the number of pencils Maggie gives to jamil

Answer 1

Y=( x/2 )- 5

Where y is the number of pencils given to Jamil and 5 is the one kept by Maggie.

Explanation:

Let's call the number of Katie pencil (x ).

So Katie gave half of her pencils to Maggie.(1/2x)

So Maggie keeps five pencils and give the rest to Jamil.

So

X/2 = 5 + y

Where y is the number of pencils given to Jamil and 5 is the one kept by Maggie.

Y=( x/2 )- 5