In a box of 72 red and white stockings, there are 16 more white stockings than red stockings. what is the number of white stockings? show all your work.

He letter p on the number line below represents the number . (use the hyphen for negative numbers and write answer as a decimal, such as –7.2) number line from negative 7 to positive 7 in increments of 0.5 is shown. only the whole numbers are labeled. a point labeled p is placed at the eleventh tick mark to the left of 0.