Helen bought notebooks and pencils for school. The number of pencils she bought is given by 6(n-3) , where n is the number of no

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nadezda [96]

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Helen bought notebooks and pencils for school. The number of pencils she bought is given by 6(n-3) , where n is the number of no

tebooks she bought. How many pencils did Helen buy if she bought 5 notebooks?

Mathematics

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pychu [463] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-05T02:39:38+03:00

pychu [463]3 years ago

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So the number of pencils bought can be represented by an equation: $P=6(n-3)$ , where n is the number of notebooks bought. Since Helen bought 5 notebooks, simply plug 5 into n: $P=6(5-3)=6(2)=12$ . So Helen bought 12 pencils.