You are packing candles in a box. You can fit 12 candles in each box.

Question

Put the story problem into a liner Equation 

 

Answer 1

we could also form an equation that reads :

 

c = 12 * b

 

 

where b is a box of candles and c is the total number of candles packed  those boxes.

 

If we had 50  boxes there would be 600 candles in it.

Answer 2

If b=boxes and c=candles, then

 

b = 12c

or

y = 12x