Personal Pottery is a paint-your-own pottery studio. For her birthday, Hazel's parents paid for the Jungle Party Package, which allowed each of the 18 party guests to make their own jungle-themed frame. Each guest painted 9 small ceramic animals before attaching them to a frame.

Question

Let c represent how many ceramic animals the party guests made in all. Which equation models the problem?
Solve this equation to find how many ceramic animals the party guests made in all.
ceramic animals

Answer 1

To model the problem with an equation, we need to find the total number of ceramic animals made by all the party guests.

Given that there are 18 party guests and each guest painted 9 small ceramic animals, we can express the total number of ceramic animals (\(c\)) with the following equation:

\[ c = 18 \times 9 \]

Now, let's solve this equation:

\[ c = 18 \times 9 = 162 \]

Thus, the total number of ceramic animals the party guests made in all is 162.