A group of hens laid the same number of eggs each day for a week. Kelly collected the eggs for six days. Write an expression to show the number of eggs Kelly did not collect.

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Tara Gould

Mathematics

5 February, 13:35

A group of hens laid the same number of eggs each day for a week. Kelly collected the eggs for six days. Write an expression to show the number of eggs Kelly did not collect.

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Catherine Vega · Answer 1

Number of eggs=6x

Its that simple equation, because if hens laid the same number of eggs each day (and we dont know how much per day, so I put x instead of it) but we know that Kelly collected the eggs for six days we can put there 6.

Finally we obtainted number of eggs = 6*x