Your neighbor spent three times more money on Halloween candy then you your neighbor spent $27 on Halloween candy write an equation and solve for the unknown

You spent 9 dollars. why? because your neighbor spent 3 times more than you, which means you spent 1/3 of what he spent. so just multiply by 1/3 to get 9.

this can also be modeled by an equation. 3x = 27

divide 3 on both sides to get

x = 9