More Multistep Equations Study Guide

A furniture store sells kits that customers use to build cabinets. Each kit contains 18

boards and a set number of screws. Jarred buys 6 of these kits and has a total of 192

screws and boards. The equation shown represents this situation.

6(x + 18) = 192

What does the variable x represent in Jarred’s equation?

• The number of screws in one set

• The number of boards in one set

• The number of screws in all six sets

• The number of boards in all six sets

Xavier and Jeanine each worked a shift today, selling tickets to the school fair for $5

each. Xavier worked the first shift. During Jeanine's shift, she sold 15 tickets. At the end

of the day, the total amount of money from tickets sold was $185. Which equation could

be used to determine x, the number of tickets Xavier sold?

Emily bought 5 tickets to a concert for $50 each. Later, she bought another set of

tickets to the same concert for the same price per ticket, and spent a total of $350 on all

of the tickets she bought. Which equation can be used to find the number of tickets, x, in

the second set of tickets that Emily bought?

Benjamin ordered 3 boxes of pens for the supply room. There are 12 pens in each box.

If there are now a total of 96 pens in the supply room, including the ones Benjamin

added, how many boxes of pens were already in there before his order arrived?