Question

Jasper has 7 more checkers left than Karen does.Jaspar has 9 checkers left. write and solve an addition equation to find out how many checkers Karen has left.

Answer 1

Solution:

As per the problem we have

Jasper has 7 more checkers left than Karen does.

Let Karen has x checkers.

It mean Jasper has $(x+7)$ checkers.

Now again from the problem we have

Jasper has 9 checkers left.

so we can write

$x+7=9\\ \\ x=9-7\\ \\ x=2$

It mean karen has 2 checkers left.

Answer 2

Well u just do 9+-7=2 checkers so Karen has 2 checkers left