Question

Peter piper picked 135 pickled peppers.

He ate 3 pickled peppers during lunch.

He made 11 small batched of hot sauce from the rest.

Enter the number of pickled peppers that are in each small batches of hot sauce.

Enter an equation that can be solved to find out how many pickled peppers, f, he used for each small batch of hot sauce.

Answer 1

There are 12 peppers in each bottle of hot sauce

Answer 2

There are 12 pickled peppers in each small batch of hot sauce. We can use the equation f = (135-3)/11 to find this answer.