Hey,
For your question we need to subtract.
Ed starts out with 14 puppets.
He then gives some to his brother.
And now he has 5 puppets.
An expression we can make for this is below:
14 - p = 5
P is how many puppets Ed gave to his brother.
To find the answer can do:
14 - 5
To figure out how many puppets he gave to his brother.
We are using the commutative property by the way. Which the commutative property states that order does not matter. It matters in some cases but not here. We basically moved the 5 and the p so we created a new equation but with the same outcome.
14 - 5 = 9
9 is how many puppets Ed gave to his brother.
Hope this helps!
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