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.

Answer 1

Let's start by defining the variable \( b \) as the number of balloons that Alexa popped.

According to the problem, Krista popped 6 balloons, which is 1 balloon less than the number of balloons popped by Alexa. Therefore, we can express this relationship using the following equation:

\[ b = 6 + 1 \]

This simplifies to:

\[ b = 7 \]

So, Alexa popped 7 balloons.