Question

alex is going to share a bag of 24 jelly beans with his friend austin . alex gives some of the jelly beans to austin but , when they do a count , alex has three times as many jelly beans as austin . how many jelly beans do they each have ?

Answer 1

Austin would have 6 jelly beans and Alex would have 18 because if Alex were to have three times as many jellybeans as Austin that means Austin will have one times and Alex would have three times which equals four so you would have to divide 4÷24 which gives them six for each group