Question

Owen went to his newborhood convenience store where he bought 25 small packages of allerent kinds of cindy. After counting the candies in his purchase he calculated that he had 100 candies in total A) if each packane kontakter beamount of candy, how many candies were in each package B) Owen decided to give one fifth of the candy that evening to his brother, Clive, Owen saved the wood How many candies did he nive to Clive?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

A) 4 candies in each package.

B) Owen gave 20 candies to Clive.

STEP-BY-STEP EXPLANATION:

A) We can calculate the amount of candy per package since we know the total amount and the number of packages, then:

$\frac{100}{25}=4$

which means that there are 4 candies in each package.

B) We can calculate 1/5 of a number by dividing that number by 5. Then Owen gave the following candies to Clive:

$\frac{100}{5}=20$