Emma has 15 cookies and eats 2 cookies per day evan has 45 cookies and eats 8 each day how would you write and solve an equation to figure out after how many days they will have the same number of cookies

Solution:

we are given that

Emma has 15 cookies and eats 2 cookies per day.

So the number of cookies left after n days can be written as

Evan has 45 cookies and eats 8 each day.

So the number of cookies left after n days can be written as

Number of days after which they will have equal number of cookies can be found as below

Hence both will have equal number of cookies after 5 days.

no, because the sides are not congruent