Question

Your grandmother always has a jar of cookies on her counter. One day while you are visiting, you eat 5 cookies from the jar. In the equation below, c is the number of cookies remaining in the jar and b is the number of cookies in the jar before your visit.

Answer 1

b - 5 = c

Explanation:

if you take the number of cookies before the visit (B) and then you eat 5, that would be (B - 5). after you eat the cookies, C is the amount left. so it’s a subtraction problem without 2 numbers. so the equation would be

b - 5 = c

or

before - 5 = after