Exercise 41 Page 9

We are told that the baker ordered 162 eggs in x cartons, each containing 18 eggs. In other words, after the eggs are delivered to the bakery, the baker will have to open cartons of 18 eggs x times to crack all 162 eggs for the recipes.

Verbal	Algebraic
eggs per carton	18
times	*
the number of cartons	x
equals	=
total number of eggs	162
18 * x = 162 ⇔ 18x=162

This equation corresponds with option C.