Ian wanted to display some photos of his recent vacation to Surf City Beach. He used seashells he collected at the beach to decorate 7 picture frames. Ian used the same number of seashells to decorate each frame. He used 63 seashells in all.

Question

Let s represent how many seashells Ian used to decorate each frame. Which equation models the problem?
Solve this equation to find how many seashells Ian used to decorate each frame.
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Answer 1

Let \( s \) represent the number of seashells Ian used to decorate each frame. Since he used the same number of seashells for each of the 7 frames and a total of 63 seashells, we can model the situation with the following equation:

\[ 7s = 63 \]

To find out how many seashells Ian used to decorate each frame, we will solve the equation for \( s \):

1. Divide both sides of the equation by 7:

\[ s = \frac{63}{7} \]

2. Calculate the right side:

\[ s = 9 \]

So, Ian used 9 seashells to decorate each frame.