A furniture store sells kits that customers use to build cabinets. Each kit contains 18 screws and a set number of boards. Jarred buys 6 of these kits and has a total of 192 screws and boards. He writes the equation shown to represent the situation.

Question

6(x + 18) = 192

Answer 1

In the equation, x represents the number of boards in each kit.

To solve for x, first distribute the 6 on the left side of the equation:

6x + 108 = 192

Then, combine like terms:

6x = 84

Finally, solve for x by dividing both sides by 6:

x = 14

Therefore, each kit contains 14 boards.