Question

Joes Fun and Sun rents beach chairs. The store rented 300 beach chairs each month in April and in May. The store rented 600 beach chairs each month from June to September. How many beach chairs dos the store rent during the 6 months?

Questions to ask:
A. What do we know?
B. How will you find the number of chairs?

Answer 1

A.) We know that 300 chairs were rented each month in April and May. Also, that 600 chairs were rented each month from June to September.

B.) Equation-> April+May+June+July+August+September
All we need to do is plug in the values::
300+300+600+600+600+600
=3,000 chairs were rented during the 6 month period.

Hope this helps:)