Paige was helping her mom plant flowers and together they planted 36 seeds. They put 12 seeds in each flower bed and only 58 seeds grew into flowers in each flower bed. How many flower beds did they have?
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We know that Paige and her mom planted 36 seeds in total. They put 12 seeds in each flower bed. We also know that 58 seeds grew into flowers in each flower bed.

We want to know how many flower beds they had.

We can set up an equation to solve this problem.

36 = 12x

We want to solve for x.

To solve for x, we can divide both sides of the equation by 12.

36/12 = 12x/12

3 = x

This means that Paige and her mom had 3 flower beds.