Brody is making welcome bags for some foreign exchange students joining his school. He divides a box of pencils evenly among 8 welcome bags. Each bag gets 4 pencils.

Question

Let p represent how many pencils were in the box. Which equation models the problem?
Solve this equation to find how many pencils were in the box.

Answer 1

To model the problem with an equation, we can recall that Brody divides the total number of pencils $p$ evenly among 8 welcome bags, with each bag receiving 4 pencils. This means the total number of pencils distributed to the 8 bags can be expressed as:

$$8\times 4$$

This expression simplifies to:

$$32$$

Thus, we can set up the equation representing the total number of pencils in the box:

$$p=8\times 4$$

Now, substituting the calculated value:

$$p=32$$

Therefore, the number of pencils in the box is:

$$\boxed{{\displaystyle 32}}$$