Sarah is making her parents a photo album for their anniversary. There are 12 pages in the album. Sarah puts the same number of photos on each page for a total of 72 photos. Let p represent how many photos Sarah puts on each page. Which equation models the problem? Choices: (A)p/12 = 72 (B)12p = 72 Solve this equation to find how many photos Sarah puts on each page. ____ photos

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Sarah is making her parents a photo album for their anniversary. There are 12 pages in the album. Sarah puts the same number of photos on each page for a total of 72 photos. Let p represent how many photos Sarah puts on each page. Which equation models the problem?   Choices: (A)p/12 = 72 (B)12p = 72    Solve this equation to find how many photos Sarah puts on each page. ____ photos

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Understand Problem & Set Equation: Understand the problem and set up the equation. Sarah has 12 pages and a total of 72 photos. She puts the same number of photos on each page. Let p be the number of photos per page. The equation that models this situation is 12p = 72, where 12 represents the pages and p the photos per page. Solve Equation: Solve the equation 12p = 72. Divide both sides of the equation by 12 to isolate p. p = 72 / 12 p = 6

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