SOLUTION: please solve this problem for me. Murphy has 18 pencils. She has 3 times as many pencils as pens.Which of these equations represent how to find the number of pens Murphy has? (

Question 731934: please solve this problem for me.
Murphy has 18 pencils. She has 3 times as many pencils as pens.Which of these equations represent how to find the number of pens Murphy has?
(n= number of pens Murphy has)
A.18+3=n
b.18x3=n
c.18-3=n
d.18 divided 3 n

Answer by fcabanski(1391) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
# of pencils (p=18) is (=) three times the number of pens (3n).

18=3n

18/3 = n (answer d)

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