Practice problem
Equation Word Problems — Examples & Practice

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Glen was looking up recipes online to make snickerdoodle cookies. Out of all of the recipes he looked at, of them required cream of tartar. If one third of the recipes Glen looked at did not require cream of tartar, how many total recipes did Glen look at before choosing one? Choose an equation that can be used to solve this problem.