A certain vegetable recipe requires 5 brussels sprouts per person. melvin has a dozen brussels sprouts. write an equation to find out how many more does he need to prepare the vegetable dish for 9 guests and solve.

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Madilynn

24 January, 22:53

A certain vegetable recipe requires 5 brussels sprouts per person. melvin has a dozen brussels sprouts. write an equation to find out how many more does he need to prepare the vegetable dish for 9 guests and solve.

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Itchy · Answer 1

To find out how many more brussel spouts Melvin needs, you will subtract the total amount needed and the amount he has.

To find how many he needs you multiply 9 x 5 = 45 brussel sprouts.

If he has a dozen (12), Melvin will still need 33 brussel sprouts (45 - 12).

The equation showing this is:

(5 x 9) - 12 = b, where b is the number of brussel sprouts needed.