Question

the glee club is going to have a float in the parade. they made 437 paper flowers for the float last week. they made 322 more this week than last week. they need 1250 flowers. how many more do they need to make

Answer 1

Last week, the Glee Club made 437 flowers. They made 322 more this week than last week. So this could be shown in this case as 437 + 759 (since 437 + 322 = 759). This equals 1,196 flowers. To find the remaining number of required flowers, we could represent this equation as 1,196 + x = 1,250, with x representing the number of flowers still needed. Since 1,250 - 1,196 = 54, they still need to make 54 paper flowers for their parade float. Substituted back into the equation, it would look like this:

1,196 + 54 = 1,250.