Question

Geppetto is a puppet maker. When the month started, Geppetto had 12 puppets ready to sell. On the eighth day he had 60 puppets finished.Write an equation to model this situation (use x for days and p for puppetts).

Answer 1

Since he started with 12 puppets, that means that he made 48 puppets in 8 days. Hence he makes 6 puppets per day.

Let x be the number of days passed and p the number of puppets then we have that he makes:

$6x$

in x days. To this we have to add the initial number of puppets, therefore the total number of puppets is given as:

$p=6x+12$