Question

AA.16 Solve one-step equations: word problems BXY At the school's holiday craft fair, Daniel and his classmates get to make gingerbread houses. Their teacher divides a bag of licorice ropes evenly among the 8 students at the table. Each student gets 4 licorice ropes to decorate the roof of his or her gingerbread house. Which equation can you use to find the number of licorice ropes r that came in the bag?

Answer 1

To find the number of licorice ropes \( r \) that came in the bag, we can set up the equation based on the information given:

Each of the 8 students receives 4 licorice ropes. Therefore, the total number of licorice ropes \( r \) can be expressed as:

\[ r = 8 \times 4 \]

Now we can write this as an equation:

\[ r = 32 \]

Thus, the equation you can use to find the number of licorice ropes \( r \) is:

\[ r = 8 \times 4 \]

So the answer is: \[ r = 32 \]

This means that there were 32 licorice ropes in the bag.