{"id":17669,"date":"2026-05-02T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/algebra-word-problem-5\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:30:44","slug":"algebra-word-problem-5","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/algebra-word-problem-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Algebra Word Problem 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 identical pens cost 252 taka. If one pen costs x taka, which equation and value are correct?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>4x = 252, x = 63<\/li>\n<li>4x = 63, x = 252<\/li>\n<li>x\/4 = 252, x = 1008<\/li>\n<li>x + 4 = 252, x = 248<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705,2537],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1895],"class_list":["post-17669","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","topic-word-problems","subject-mathematics","education_level-ssc"],"mcq_note":"Let x represent the cost of one pen. Total cost = number of pens \u00d7 price per pen, so 4x=252. Dividing by 4, x=63. Because all pens are identical, total cost equals number of pens multiplied by the cost of one pen. That gives the correct equation and value: 4x = 252, x = 63.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"4x = 252, x = 63"},{"right":"no","answer":"4x = 63, x = 252"},{"right":"no","answer":"x\/4 = 252, x = 1008"},{"right":"no","answer":"x + 4 = 252, x = 248"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"},{"id":2537,"title":"Word Problems","slug":"word-problems"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/17669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=17669"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17669"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=17669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}