Question

A ball box contains x soccer balls. The box contains 5 times as many softballs as soccer balls. Write an equation to represent the total number of softballs, y, in the ball box?

Answer 1

X represents the soccer balls and y represents the softballs.
There are 5 times as many softballs than soccer balls.
5x would equal to the softballs.
So the equation would be:
5x=y

Answer 2

y=5x is the correct equation