Question

jose bought "n" packs of pencils. Each pack has 12 pencils. Write an equation to represent the total number of pencils "p" that josé bought.

Answer 1

nx12=p

Explanation:

So every pack has 12 pencils. You multiply the packs of pencils that José bought with how much pencils per pack. Since José bought "n" packs of pencils, the equation is nx12. But the answer is also unknown since we don't know how much packs José bought, so the answer is "p", or the total number of pencils José bought.