math word problem

Question

there are 12 houses on a street each house has 4 pets, how many pets live on the street

Answer 1

For word problems, it is best to break them up. The problem states that there are 12 houses on a street. Each house has 4 pets. To find how many pets live on the street, you can do the following:

1/4 = 12/x

The equation below is a proportion. 1 house has 4 pets. We are trying to find the number of pets for 12 houses.

Knowing this you, can set a proportion as shown above, and cross multiply which would be 1 * x = 4 * 12

This reduces to x = 48 which will be your answer