There were 3 pieces of pie and two kids wanted them. You gave each give one full piece of pie and then cut the last piece in half. After this, each kid had 1 1/2 pieces of pie.
15a-25=35
3.333
Leah needs to buy some apples from the grocery store. She places fifteen apples in her cart and proceeds to the checkout. Lucky for her, there happens to be a discount on apples for the day. She saves $25 on her purchase. The total money she ends up spending was only $35 (excluding tax). How much did each apple cost?
Answer:
63
Step-by-step explanation:
4*15=60 60*3.14=188.4 188.4*1/3= 62.8 rounded that would be 63
Answer:
tasha got 1/2 of it
one friend got 1/4 of it
the other friend got 1/4 of it
Step-by-step explanation:
Let be "x" the number of colored pencils in the box.
According to the information given in the exercise, there are 84 pencils in the box and 53 of them are regular pencils.
Knowing this information, you can set up the following equation:

Finally, you have to solve for the variable "x" in order to find its value. In order to do this, you can apply the Subtraction property of equality by subtracting 53 from both sides of the equation:

The answer is: There are 31 colored pencils in the box.