<PRE><B>Question 406470</B>
A teacher has a box of pens and pencils. There are 8 more pencils than pens. After students take 1 pen and 5 pencils from the box, there are 26 pens and
? pencils left in the box. How many pens are in the box now? How many pencils?
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Start: x pencils ; x+8 pens
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Change: x-5 pencils ; x+8-1 pens
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Equation:
x+8-1 = 26
x + 7 = 26
x = 19
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Therefore # of pencils in the box now = x-5 = 19-5 = 14
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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