You are baking muffins for your class. There are 17 total students in your class and you have baked

You are baking muffins for your class. There are 17 total students in your class and you have baked 5 muffins. Write and solve an equation to find the additional number x of muffins you need to bake in order to have 2 muffins for each student. Write your equation so that the units on each side of the equation are muffins per student.

Calculate total muffins:
Total muffins = 2 muffins per student * 17 students
Total muffins = 34

Set up the equation using x for muffins:
x + 5 = 34

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x = 29