Fill in the blanks.
Adam has 6 times as many red stickers as blue stickers.
- Number of blue stickers = _____ u
- Number of red stickers = _____ u
- Total number of stickers = _____ u
- Number of less blue stickers than red stickers = _____ u
(a)
Focus on the sentence with the word 'times'.
Assign 1 u to the variable that is found after the word 'times'.
Number of blue stickers = 1 u
(b)
Number of red stickers = 6 u
(c)
Total number of stickers
= 1 u + 6 u
= 7 u
(d)
Number of less blue stickers than red stickers
= 6 u - 1 u
= 5 u
Answer(s): (a) 1; (b) 6; (c) 7; (d) 5