Question

Wendy is arranging books on the bookshelves in the school library. The total number of books she arranges is given by the equation b = 12r, where b is the total number of books and r is the number of rows. Each row contains the same number of books.

If Wendy arranged 16 rows she arranged a total of what books

Answer 1

the answer is 192 book. the reason why is because if you have 12 books each in 16 rows, you would like to MULTIPLY to find out how much in total. so
1
12
×16
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72
+120
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192 books