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 b8 + 25 = 500 .
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subtraction and division
addition and division
subtraction and multiplication
addition and multiplication
The correct response is addition and multiplication.
The equation needed to solve the problem is b * 8 + 25 = 500, where b represents the number of beads Niel started with. The addition operation is used to represent the 25 beads he bought at the store, while the multiplication operation is used to represent the 8 identical necklaces he made.