Beatrice has 18 pencils. Beatrice has 2 more then 4 times the number of pencils Rick has. Exactly how many pecils does Rick have?

Answer 1

Let's represent the number of pencils Rick has as R.
According to the given information, Beatrice has 18 pencils, which can be represented as B = 18.
It is also given that Beatrice has 2 more pencils than 4 times the number of pencils Rick has, which can be represented as B = 4R + 2.
Now we can substitute the value of B from the first equation into the second equation:
18 = 4R + 2
16 = 4R
R = 4
Therefore, Rick has 4 pencils.