Question

The teacher distributes $5$ pencils per students. Can you tell how many pencils are needed, given the number of students? (Use $s$ for the number of students.)

Answer 1

Step 1: Determine the pencils distributed by teacher to students

Teacher gave $5$ pencils to each students.

For $1$ student we need $5\times 1=5$ pencils

For $2$ students we need $5\times 2=10$ pencils

For $3$ students we need $5\times 3=15$ pencils

Step 2: Find that how many pencils need for given students

Let us consider $s$ as the given students.

Total number of pencils $=$ Number of pencils given to each students $\times$ number of students

For $s$ students we need $5\times s=5s$ pencils.

Therefore, $5s$ pencils are needed for given students.

Hence, $5s$ pencils are needed to distribute the given $s$ students.