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Monique had a collection of cars. She got 8 cars for her bday. She now has 25 cars. How many did she have in her collection before her bday? Let c= number of cars.

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
8 years ago

c = 25 - 8

I assume these are toy cars. :-)

User Icon for Amy Amy answered
8 years ago

Yes mam...

Thank u

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
8 years ago

You're welcome.

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago

To find the number of cars Monique had in her collection before her birthday, we can use the equation: c + 8 = 25, where c represents the number of cars she had before her birthday.

To isolate the variable c, we need to subtract 8 from both sides of the equation:

c + 8 - 8 = 25 - 8

This simplifies to:

c = 17

Therefore, Monique had 17 cars in her collection before her birthday.