Question

Maria has 32 postcards. Henry has h postcards. Maria has 4 times as many postcards as Henry. Choose Yes or No to indicate whether each statement is true. a. The number of postcards Henry has can be represented by the expression 32 = 4. Yes No Yes b. Henry has 6 postcards. c. The number of postcards Henry has can be found by solving the equation 32 = 4 X h. No Yes No

Answer 1

Maria has 32 postcards and Henry has h postcards

Maria has 4 times as many postcards as Henry.

So, we can write

$32=4\times h$

Re-arranging the equation for Henry, we get

$h=32\div4$

Therefore, the statement (a) is Yes

b. Let us solve the above equation to find how many postcards does Henry has.

$\begin{gathered} h=32\div4 \\ h=\frac{32}{4} \\ h=8 \end{gathered}$

So, Henry has 8 postcards.

Therefore, the statement (b) is No

c. The number of postcards Henry has can be found by the equation that we got in part (a)

$32=4\times h$

Therefore, the statement (c) is Yes