Chip and Dale collected sixty-four acorns on Monday and stored them with their acorn supply. After Chip Fell asleep, Dale ate ha
lf the acorns. This pattern continued through Friday night, with sixty-four acorns being added and half the supply being eaten. On Saturday morning, chip counted the acorns and found that they had only seventy. How many acorns had they started with on Monday morning?
4 is the largest number that is common to both 32 and 44. Factoring it out looks like this: 4(8 + 11) = 4(8 + 11). That's weird to me but all textbooks begin that process just that same way.
