Question

sienna has 20 toy dolls. she wants to put the same number of tolls on each of 5 shelves. how many toy dolls will sienna put on each shelf? write an equation using n to find unknown factor. then explain how you found the unknown factor.

Answer 1

n=4

20=5n

To find the number of dolls, n must be found before it was multiplied by 5.

divide 5 by 20 and you get 4