Question

Quiana has 5 times more text messages from Yolanda than from Pierre. Quiana has 30 text messages from Yolanda. Which equation can be used to find how many text messages Quiana has from Pierre, p?

Answer 1

`p=(30)/(5)`

Explanation:

Quiana has 5 times more text messages from Yolanda than from Pierre, we also know that she actually has 30 text messages from Yolanda. In other words, 30 texts from Yolanda is 5 times more text messages than from Pierre.

Thus, if we call p the number of texts messages from Pierre we would have that

`p=(30)/(5)` (since 30 texts from Yolanda is 5 times more than p, we can divide by 5 to find p)

And if we solve this equation we would get that Quiana has 6 text messages from Pierre