We are told that Luis purchased 24 purple plants and 8 pink plants. He wants to plant them in equal groups in his garden. We are asked to find out largest number of groups he can make.
To solve this problem we will find GCF of 24 and 8.
Factors of 24 are: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12 and 24.
Factors of 8 are 1,2,4 and 8.
We can see that greatest common factor of 24 and 8 is 8.
Therefore, Luis can make 8 groups each having 3 purple plants and 1 pink plant.
In which case you would add 8 to both sides to get rid of the 8 on the left (your goal is to get x by itself so you want to move the numbers on the x side to the other side of the equal sign)
(x/5)=12
Then you would multiply 5 on both sides to get rid of the fraction with the 5 on the bottom on the left side.
