Question

you are baking cookies for your class. there are 23 total students in your class and you have baked 12 cookies. write and solve an equation to find the additional number x of cookies you need to bake in order to have 2 cookies for each student. write your equation so that the units on each side of the equation are cookies per student.

Answer 1

Since, we need the cookies to be 2 cookies for each student and there are 23 students, the total number of cookies needed is 23 x 2 = 46.

Given that 12 cookies has already been baked, let x be the additional number of cookies needed to be baked, then 12 + x = 46

12 + x = 46

x = 46 - 12 = 34

Therefore, the additional number of cookies needed to be baked is 34 coolies.