Question

A teacher offers her students 2 prizes when they get perfect scores on their spelling quizzes. if one of her students gets a perfect score on 5 of the quizzes and already has 4 prizes, how many prizes in total does this student have?

Answer 1

Since the student already has 4 and gains 2, an equation to represent it could be;
4 + 2 = x
x = 6
Thus, the students has 6 prizes total.

Answer 2

he has 14 prizes total after he gets the ten that he is owed