Ms ruiz planted 14 flowers in 3 pots. she planted 4 flowers in one pot and split the rest equally between the other 2 pots write and solve an equation to find the number of flowers ms ruiz planted in eaxh of 2 pots

So, Ms. Ruiz has 14 flowers.  If she put 4 flowers in 1 pot, she has 10 flowers left.  If she splits the rest evenly, she gets 5 flowers each.  Let's make this into an equation: 14=2x+4.  In other words, 14 flowers equals x flowers in one pot, plus x flowers in another pot, plus 4 flowers in another pot.  (Note that 2x=x+x: 2x is another way of writing that out.)  Now, we solve using inverse operations: 14-4=2x+4-4.  10=2x.  10/2=2x/2.  x=5.

14=2x+4; x=5