Question

At the beginning of a bake sale mary set aside 4 pies for herself karen bought half of the remaining pies for her birthday party and 5 more pies were sold during the sale. When the sale was over there were 19 pies remaining. How msny pies were there before the bake sale started

Answer 1

The answer is 28 pies

Answer 2

There were fifty two pies at the start of the bakesale. If you work backwards, the original number of pies was subtracted by four, divided by two, and then subtracted by five. If you started with nineteen and then undid all of that, you get 52