Question

ms.carlylre bought a bag of peanuts for her children. Phillip took 1/3 of the peanuts. Joy took 1/4 of the remaining. and brent took 1/2 of the remaining peanuts. Preston took 10 peanuts. there were 71 left in the bag. How many peanuts were originally in thr bag? How many peanuts did each kid take?

Answer 1

1.4
1.3
42
140
=
5.60

71

I couldn’t fit all my work in here but I believe the answer is 5.60 if not then 5.70
Hope this helped:)