Question

Mrs Smith has 12 times as many markers as color pencils the total number of markers and colored pencils is 78 how many markers does Mrs Smith have

Answer 1

Let the colored pencil amount be p.
Then this is the equation:
12p+p=78
Simplifying, we can see that
13p=78
Divide both sides by 13 to get
p=6

Since there are 12 times as many markers as colored pencils, there are 72 markers.