Equations
The first floor of a building has 7 clocks. The entire building has 10 times as many clocks as the first floor. Write an equation that shows how many clocks are in the entire building.
7 x 10= 70
There are 7 times as many cars as there are trucks in a parking lot. If there are 49 cars in the parking lot, how many trucks are there?
7 x 7 = 49
7 trucks
High Street has 5 houses and Mill Street has 35 houses. How many times as many houses are on Mill Street as on High Street?
7 times aa many
or
5 x 7 = 35
what number is 4 times as many as 6?
What is: 24
Harry has a package of trail mix. He sorts the trail mix and counts 4 almonds. The trail mix has 3 times as many raisins as almonds. Write an equation that can be used to find the number of raisins.
4 x 3= 12
7
Ben plants 6 tomato seeds. He plants 3 times as many cucumber seeds as tomato seeds. Write an equation that can be used to find the number of cucumber seeds he plants.
6 x 3 = 18
18 Cucumber seeds
On Friday, Heather did 40 hops while jumping rope. That is 4 times as many hops as she did on Monday
Which equation can be used to find how many hops, h, Heather did on Monday?
40 dived 4 = h
Dara visits an animal shelter and counts 5 cats. She counts 3 times as many dogs as cats. How many more dogs than cats does Dara count at the animal shelter?
5 x 3=15
15-5= 10 Dogs
The Tigers scored 6 runs in a game. This was 2 times as many runs as the Orioles scored in the game.
Which equation shows how many runs r, the Orioles scored?
6= 2 x r