Fill in the blanks.
Adam has 2 times as many red stickers as green stickers.
- Number of green stickers = _____ u
- Number of red stickers = _____ u
- Total number of stickers = _____ u
- Number of less green 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 green stickers = 1 u
(b)
Number of red stickers = 2 u
(c)
Total number of stickers
= 1 u + 2 u
= 3 u
(d)
Number of less green stickers than red stickers
= 2 u - 1 u
= 1 u
Answer(s): (a) 1; (b) 2; (c) 3; (d) 1