On Tuesday Grac4e's flower shop sold 124 flowers. At the end of the day, there were 237 flowers left in the shop. Grace use the equation below to find the total number of flowers, f, that were in the shop at the beginning of the day.
f-124=237
correct, assuming she neither gave any away, or threw any away.
To find the total number of flowers that were in the shop at the beginning of the day, we need to isolate the variable "f" in the equation:
f - 124 = 237
To isolate "f", we need to get rid of the subtracted 124. We can do this by adding 124 to both sides of the equation:
f - 124 + 124 = 237 + 124
f = 361
Therefore, there were 361 flowers in the shop at the beginning of the day.