Question

a school ordered three large boxes of board markers after giving 15 markers to each of three teachers there were ninety X the diagram represents the situation how many markers were original in the

Answer 1

Determine the value of x.

$\begin{gathered} x-15+x-15+x-15=90 \\ 3x=90+45 \\ x=\frac{135}{3} \\ =45 \end{gathered}$

So there are 45 markers originally in each box.