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Solving Single-Variable Multiplication Equations

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Solving Single-Variable Multiplication Equations
Introduction

A multiplication equation contains a variable multiplied by a number, and the goal is to find the value of that variable. Using the inverse operation of...

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Maya has 63 stickers and wants to share them equally among 9 friends. She wonders how many stickers each of her friends will get.

Let the number of stickers each friend gets be x. Since there are 9 friends and each friend gets x stickers, Maya sets up a multiplication equation with one unknown number, the variable x