Question

So I had 196 pencils. If she puts equal amounts of pencils into eight boxes, she has four pencils left how many pencils does she put in each box? Which Stratrgy could help solve this word problem

Answer 1

D: If x represents the number of pencils per box, solve the equation 8x + 4 = 196.

Answer 2

You would want to use division for this problem because if you put pencils into boxes, you are DIVIDING them into groups. To make it easier, you should take off the remainder so you can divide easily. Now the number of pencils we need to divide is 192. The equation is 192/8 which equals 24 pencils in each box.