CPM Homework Help : CC2MN Problem 11-16

Johanna is planting tomatoes in the school garden this year. Tomato plants come in packs of $6$ . She needs $80$ plants in the garden and already has $28$ . How many packs of plants will she need?

Hint:

Write an equation to represent this situation.

More Help:

For each pack Johanna will gain $6$ more tomato plants, so we need to multiply each pack by $6$ . She already has $28$ tomato plants and she needs $80$ .

Step 1:

In equation form:
$6p + 28 = 80$
$p$ is the number of packs of plants.

Step 2:

Solve for $p$ . Round up to the nearest whole pack.