A box of pencils is 5 1/4 inches wide. Seven pencils, laid side by side, take up 2 5/8 inches of the width. How many inches of the width of the box is not taken up by pencils? Show your reasoning. All the pencils have the same width. How wide is each pencil? Show your reasoning.

  Width of box is not taken up by pencils =  

Width of each pencil

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: Width of pencil box =

Width of seven pencils =

Width of box is not taken up by pencils =  Width of pencil box  - Width of seven pencils

Width of box is not taken up by pencils =  

Width of each pencil = (Width of seven pencils ) ÷ 7

Width of each pencil

to plot points   for x just start at the origin (middle) and go to the left however many times it say(if the number is a positive) if the number is a negative then go right however many times it says if it is 0 go nowhere

now keep you pencil there and go up however many times it says on y(if it is positive) if it is negative then go down however many times it says. if it says 0 go nowhere.

you have just plotted a point! now when you finish plotting all of them connect them with a ruler

plot each point as (-3, 7), (0,4), (3,1), (8,-4)   in the parenthesis on the left of the comma is x and the right is y.

-7/8

step-by-step explanation:

instead of subtracting you add the -6/8 and -1/8