Question

Mary baked 34 muffins on a Sunday. She gave 17 of them to her neighbor. Identify an equation and its solutionthat shows the number of muffins she had left.

Answer 1

Given:

Mary baked 34 muffins on a Sunday.

She gave 17 of them to her neighbor.

consider, the number of muffins left will be x.

the equation is represented as,

$34-17=x$

take the subtraction,

$\begin{gathered} 34-17=x \\ \Rightarrow x=17 \end{gathered}$

Answer: the number of muffins she had left was 17 .