Question

Joey owns a small bakery and today Phoebe has ordered 100 cookies. If Joey boxes the cookies by the dozen, which of the following equations describes how many boxes of cookies Phoebe will have? Let b represent the number of boxes. (HINT: All of the cookie boxes are not necessarily full.)

Answer 1

Joey needs 9 boxes.

Explanation:

You will use the fact that a dozen is 12 cookies. You're trying to find how many dozen are in 100.

Something like:

12b = 100

or if you're studying inequalities:

12b >= 100

Divide by 12 to solve. See image. Interpret the results. See image.