Question

The audio-visual technician for a hotel ordered 4 boxes of microphone cords. There are 12 cords in each box.

Answer 1

Your equation to solve is 108-(12×4).
This is 108-48 which is 60.
There were 60 cords at the hotel before the order. Since you need to find the boxes you do 60/12 which is 5.
There were 5 boxes.

Answer 2

Answer:  5 boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : The audio-visual technician for a hotel ordered 4 boxes of microphone cords.

There are 12 cords in each box.

Then, the number of cords in 4 boxes will be $4\times12=48$

If there are now a total of 108 cords at the hotel,  then the number of corfds were before the order : 108-48=60

Then, the number of boxes were in hotel before the order :-

$=\dfrac{60}{12}=5$

Hence, there were 5 boxes of cords in the hotel before the order.