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Naddik [55]
2 years ago
15

Andrew has three times as many pencils as Noah and five pens he has 17 pens and pencils altogether how many pencils does Noah ha

ve. Distributive property and solving equations
Mathematics
1 answer:
Novay_Z [31]2 years ago
7 0

9514 1404 393

Answer:

  4

Step-by-step explanation:

The distributive property does not appear to be involved in this question.

Let n represent the number of Noah's pencils. Then Andrew's total is ...

  3n +5 = 17

  3n = 12 . . . . . subtract 5 from both sides

  n = 4 . . . . . .  divide both sides by 3

Noah has 4 pencils.

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