Question

Larry had 32 pieces of candy.Melissa has twice as many pieced of candy as Larry. How many pieces of candy does Larry and Melissa have together?

Answer 1

Solution

For this case Larry had 32 pieces

And we know that Melissa has twice as Larry so then she has 32*2 = 64 pieces

Then the total of pieces are:

32+64 = 96

For the second part of the question we can do the following:

63 = 48 + 0.15*x

x= number of text messages

So then solving for x we have:

63-48 = 0.15 x

15 = 0.15 x

x= 100