Question

You are baking cookies for your class. There are 23 total students in your class and you have baked 12 cookies. Write and solve an equation to find the additional number x of cookies you need to bake in order to have 2 cookies for each student. Write your equation so that the units on each side of the equation are cookies per student.

Answer 1

23•2=46
We need 46 cookies
46-12=34
You need 34 more cookies

The equation would be:
23•2=46-12=x
Or
23•2=x-12=y

Hopefully this helps