Question

Neil has a bucket of beads. He uses them to make eight identical necklaces, and then buys 25 beats at the store. He ends up with a total of 500 beads. How many did he start with identify the operations needed to solve this problem using the equation be over 8+25 = 500 would answer, subtraction, and multiplication addition and multiplication addition and division or subtraction and division.

Answer 1

To solve this problem, the operations needed are addition and multiplication.

First, let's determine the number of beads Neil started with. Let's represent this number with the variable "x".

Neil used x beads to make eight identical necklaces, so we divide x by 8: x/8.

Then, Neil buys 25 additional beads at the store, so we add 25 to the previous result: x/8 + 25.

Finally, Neil ends up with a total of 500 beads, so we can set up the following equation: x/8 + 25 = 500.

Now, we need to solve for x. To isolate x, we can subtract 25 from both sides of the equation: x/8 = 500 - 25.

Simplifying, we get: x/8 = 475.

To solve for x, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 8: 8 * (x/8) = 8 * 475.

The 8 on the left side cancels out with the 8 in the denominator on the right side, leaving us with: x = 3800.

Therefore, Neil started with 3800 beads.