You are baking cookies for your class. There are 23 total students and you havd baked 12 cookies. Write and solve an equation to find the additional number of cookies you need to bake in order to have 2 cookies for each student
There need to be 2 cookies for each student and there are 23 students so the total number of cookies needed is 23 x 2 = 46. The additional number of cookies that need to be baked are 34 (cookies)