Question

Lena and Jodie are sisters, and together they have 56 bottles of nail polish. Lena bought 4 more than half the bottles. How many did Jodie buy?

Answer 1

First, you have to split 56 in half (because Lena bought 4 more than half of 56) 56 divided by 2 equals 28. Then you add 4 because again, Lena bought 4 more than half. That ends up at 32.

To find Jodie's bottles, you have to do 56 - 32, because the remainder of the bottles belongs to Jodie. I got 22.

Jodie bought 22 bottles of nail polish.