Alexis separated her pictures into 3 piles. Each pile contained 9 pictures. How many pictures did she have in all? Write and solve equation.
Answer to my problem: 27=9p p=3
1 pile has 9 pictures
2 piles contain 18 pictures
3 piles contain 27 pictures
If you can call the statement
number of pictures = 9x3 an "equation", so be it.
What is this p thing?
To use a variable in such a problem as this is just plain nonsense.
P is number of pictures. I had 9x3 at first, but thought that was wrong. Thanks I get it now.
To solve this problem, let's break it down step by step:
Step 1: Identify the information given in the problem. We are told that Alexis separated her pictures into 3 piles, and each pile contained 9 pictures.
Step 2: Let's introduce a variable to represent the unknown quantity. We'll use "p" to represent the number of piles.
Step 3: Write an equation based on the given information. Since each pile contains 9 pictures and there are 3 piles in total, we can write the equation as: 9p = total number of pictures.
Step 4: Solve the equation for the unknown variable. In this case, the equation is already solved for p. However, let's double-check by solving it again: 9p = 27 (since there are 3 piles and each pile has 9 pictures). By dividing both sides of the equation by 9, we get p = 3.
Step 5: Interpret the solution. The variable p represents the number of piles, so the solution tells us that Alexis had a total of 3 piles of pictures.
Step 6: Calculate the total number of pictures. Since each pile has 9 pictures and there are 3 piles, we can multiply 9 by 3: 9 x 3 = 27. So Alexis had 27 pictures in total.
Therefore, the answer to your problem is 27 pictures.