Question

Write an equation to model the situation: A girl and another girl are baking

cookies. One bakes 5 more than 3 times as many cookies as the other.
Together they bake 150 cookies.

Answer 1

3x + 5 = 150

Explanation:

3x + 5 represents 3 times as many cookies plus 5 and 150 represents the total amount of cookies.

In further detail, x represents how many cookies the other girl baked.