Question

Niel has a bucket of beads. He uses them to make 8 identical necklaces and then buys 25 beads at the store. He ends up with a total of 500 beads. How many did he start with? Identify the operations needed to solve this problem using the equation b/8 + 25 = 500

addition and multiplication

subtraction and division

subtraction and multiplication

addition and division

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT-4 Turbo]

To solve this problem using the equation \( b/8 + 25 = 500 \), you would perform the following operations:

1. Subtraction: You would subtract 25 from 500 to find out how many beads Niel had after making the necklaces but before buying additional beads.
2. Division: You would then divide the resulting number by 8 to find out how many beads he originally had per necklace (since he made 8 identical necklaces).

Therefore, the correct operations needed to solve this problem are:

subtraction and division