Question

To decorate a pillar, the number of choco chips is 5 less than the addition of 14 packets with 7 packets.
The expression for choco chips packets is .

• A. 5 - (14 + 7)
• B. (14 + 7) - 5
• C. 5 $\times$ (14 + 7)
• D. (14 + 7) $÷$ 5

Answer 1

The correct option is B (14 + 7) - 5

Here, we have to subtract 5 from the addition of 14 with 7 to find out the number of choco chips packet.

Let us first write the expression for addition of 14 with 7.
We can write it as:


"Less than" means subtraction.
Upon subtracting the number 5 from (14 + 7), we get the expression as:


Hence, the correct number of choco chips packets required is given by the expression (14 + 7) - 5.