Ginger bought 3 boxes of markers. She gave 6 markers to her sister. Now ginger has 18 markers. How many markers were in each box?

Answer 1

This is an interesting multi-step word problem.

Let's start with the total number of markers.

Ginger's sister has 6 markers.

Ginger has 18 markers.

If you add up what Ginger and her sister have, you will get the total number of markers.

We know that those markers came in 3 boxes. To find how many came in each box, divide the total number of markers by the number of boxes.

total number of markers/3 = number of markers in each box