SOLUTION: sixty cookies were divided equally to x campers. When 8 campers did not want the cookies, the other campers each received 2 more cookies. Which of the following equations could be
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Question 1096059: sixty cookies were divided equally to x campers. When 8 campers did not want the cookies, the other campers each received 2 more cookies. Which of the following equations could be
used to find the number of campers x?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Initially, each camper got cookies
The 8 campers who did not want cookies
got a total of cookies
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I can say:
( by looking at it )
( can't use the negative result )
There were 20 campers
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check answer:
Each got 3 cookies
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8 campers did not want cookies, which is
cookies, which get divided
among campers
cookies more for the 12
other campers
OK
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