Question

chris organized 4 boxes with markers and colored pencils. each box had 8 markers and p colored pencils. he used a total of 48 items. what does the unknown value, p, represent in this problem? there is an image of a bar model with four parts labeled p + 8, and the total is 48. there are four options: the number of markers in each box, the total number of colored pencils chris has, the total number of items chris has, the number of colored pencils in each box

Explanation:

The problem states each box has 8 markers and $p$ colored pencils, with $p+8$ representing the total items per box. The question asks what $p$ stands for, and the description directly links $p$ to the colored pencils per box.

Answer:

The number of colored pencils in each box