Krista and Alexa played balloon darts in a school fair. Krista popped 6 balloons, which is 1 balloon less than Alexa. Complete the working equation that represents the number of balloons, b

Question

, that Alexa popped and solve the equation. (1 point)
b − 1 =


b =

balloons

Answer 1

To represent the number of balloons, \( b \), that Alexa popped, we can set up the equation based on the information given:

Krista popped 6 balloons, which is 1 balloon less than what Alexa popped. Therefore, we can express this as:

\[ b - 1 = 6 \]

Now, we can solve for \( b \):

\[ b - 1 = 6 \] \[ b = 6 + 1 \] \[ b = 7 \]

So, the completed equation is:

\[ b - 1 = 6 \] And the solution is:

\[ b = 7 \text{ balloons} \]