Tanya printed 30 copies of her school's student handbook. Each handbook used 16 sheets of paper. She has 20 sheets of paper left over. Write and solve and equation to find the number of sheets of paper Tanya started with. Use a letter for the unknown quantity

Tanya started with 500 sheets of paper. (16 x 30) + 20 = 500 is the solved equation. 20 + 16 x 30 = S

(S=sheets of paper)

Step-by-step explanation: You can solve this by multiplying the number of papers per handbook by the number of handbooks. There were 30 handbooks, with 16 papers in each. 16 x 30 = 480. Then, Tanya had 20 papers left over. 480 + 20 = 500. In all, Tanya started with 500 sheets of paper.

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-Finn