If we divide 56 by 4 we get 14. Why by4? So that one number is 3 times the other So he had 14 balls that went into the green bags and 42 (56-14) that went into the red bags. We could just answer the question and say 14 but I think they want to know how many in each green bag.
14 and 42 don't work because they are not the same number of balls. What number is a common factor? 7 is,
We could have 2 green bags and split the 14 balls into 2 groups of 7 and with the remaining 42 - put them into 6 red bags of 7 each.
And so the answer to your question is:
7 ball in each bag = 2 bags are green, and 6 bags are red
14 balls + 42 balls = 56 bouncy balls
Hello!
Here is how we solve this question.
We know that 2 shoes = 1 pair
So we subtract 2 from 16 until we reach 0, and count how many times we subtracted.
16-2=14
14-2=12
12-2=10
10-2=8
8-2=6
6-2=4
4-2=2
2-2=0
After we do repeated subtraction we find that Abigail has 8 pairs of shoes!
Hope this helps you with your question.
