Question

Find the most important variable in the

Grandpa Joe has a closet full of ties. He divides his ties evenly among his 3
grandsons, and each one gets 27 ties. How many ties were in his closet?
A. The number of grandsons
B. The number of shirts in the closet
C. The number of ties in the closet

Answer 1

C. the number of ties

Explanation:

We usually use a variable to represent an unknown in a problem. Here, the unknown is the value we're asked to find: the number of ties in the closet.

It makes sense in this problem to use a variable to represent ...

the number of ties in the closet.

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If t represent the number of ties, then we are given the relation ...

t/3 = 27

The solution is ...

t = 3·27 = 81 . . . . Grandpa Joe had 81 ties in his closet