Question

Chris made 4 times as many putts as paul made at golf practice. together they made 60 putts. which equation below canbe used to find the number of putts paul made?
A. 5p=60
B. 4p=60
C. 4+p=60
D. 4p=60+p

Answer 1

A is the correct answer.  To express the problem, you can think of the number of putts Paul made as p and the number of putts made by Chris as 4p (since it was 4 times as many).  Their total number of putts is 60.  Write it like this:

4p + p = 60

This simplifies:

5p = 60