word Problem!

Question

There are 5,000 sheets of paper in 25 boxes. If each box contains the same number of sheets of paper, how many sheets of paper are in each box? 

Answer 1

Let x= number of sheets in each box.  

Then there are 25 boxes, times, x number of sheets in each box, yields 5,000 sheets of paper.

Therefore 25x =  5,000   

Divide by 25 on both sides, 25x/25 = 5,000/25

  x=200

There are 200 sheets of  paper in each box.