Question

Ashima bought $23$ things from the market. She bought five more jeans than shirts and two fewer watches than jeans. If $x$ represents the number of shirts in total, then which sentence can be used to find how many of each thing are bought?

• A. $x+(x+5)+(x+3)=23$
• B. $x+(x-5)+(x-3)=23$
• C. $(x+5)+(x+3)=23$
• D. $x+(x+3)=23$

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

$x+(x+5)+(x+3)=23$

Number of shirts bought by Ashima $=x$
Number of jeans bought by her $=x+5$
Number of watches bought by her
$=(x+5)-2=x+3$
Therefore, total number of things bought by her
$=x+(x+5)+(x+3)=23$.