Question

Jacks mother gave him 50 chocolates to give to his friends for his birthday party. He gave 3 chocolates to each of his friends and still had 2 chocolates left.

Answer 1

Answer:

$3x+2=50$

There are 16 friends at Jack's party.

Step-by-step explanation:

Please consider the complete question.

Jack's mother gave him 50 chocolates to give to his friends at his birthday party. He gave 3 chocolates to each of his friends and still had 2 chocolates left. Write an equation to determine the number of friends (x) at Jack's party. Find the number of friends at Jack's party.  

Since there are x friends at party, so chocolate given to x friends would be 3 times x $(3x)$ because Jack gave 3 chocolates to each friend.

As Jack has 2 chocolates left after giving to his friends, so total numbers of chocolates would be $3x+2$.

Now we will equate total number of chocolates by 50 as:

$3x+2=50$

Therefore, the equation $3x+2=50$ can be used to find number of Jack's friends.

Let us solve for x.

$3x+2-2=50-2$

$3x=48$

$\frac{3x}{3}=\frac{48}{3}$

$x=16$

Therefore, there are 16 friends at Jack's party.