Sergio has p paintings in his art collection. He and other local painting collectors agreed to donate a total of 48 paintings to the local museum. In each of the 12 collectors will donate the same number of paintings. How many paintings will Sergio have in his art collection after his donation?

Since there are 48 paintings being donated by 12 collectors, then we can say that each collector will donate 4 paintings.

This means that Sergio will have 4 less paintings then he had before, which was represented by pp . Thus, our expression is now \boxed{p - 4}p−4 .

Sergio would have 4 paintings less

Step-by-step explanation:

48 total painting

12 painting collectors donated

They all donated the same amount

So each local painting collector donates the same amount of paintings

so 48 divided by 12 = 4

So each painting collector would donate 4 painting each

We don't know how much painting Sergio had in total before but we do know how much he donated which is 4