Wesley is raising monarch caterpillars for a school science project. Every day, he feeds 7 fresh milkweed leaves to each caterpi
llar. Wesley wants to find out how many caterpillars he can feed in a day with a total of 42 leaves. Write an equation that can be solved for n to find the number of caterpillars he can feed in a day?
Every caterpillar eats 7 milkweed leaves. That means is the number of caterpillars Wesley feeds every day. Since we know 7n is equal to 42, n = 6 because 42 ÷ 7 = 6.