Given this problem, what item could be assigned 5*x* in your equation? “There were 18 red and blue toothpicks in a container at the front of a restaurant. If there are 5 times as many red toothpicks as blue toothpicks, how many blue toothpicks are there?”

Flashcard 5 - Mathematics Flashcard Set for the Wonderlic Personnel Test

the number of red toothpicks

Let’s call the number of blue toothpicks x. Therefore, the number of red toothpicks is 5x. The equation to solve would look like x + 5x = 18.

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