Question

For every 2 reeses pieces, there are 7 snickers. If there are 16 reeses pieces, how many total pieces of candy are there?

Answer 1

72 candies

Explanation:

To find the number of snickers, divide the 16 reese's pieces by two to get 8. For every two reese's pieces, there are seven snickers, so multiply that by seven to get 56. There are 56 snickers. Add the 56 snickers to the given 16 reese's pieces for 72 total pieces of candy. Hope this helped ^^

Answer 2

There are 72 pieces of candy.

Explanation:

Since there are 16 Reeses in all, we need to find out how many 2's can fit in 16. We can do that by either multiplying or dividing.

16 ÷ 2 = 8 or 8 × 2 = 16

So we have 8 groups of 2 Reeses, now we need to multiply the groups of Reeses by how many Snickers.

So:

8 × 7 = 56

Now we need to add the Snickers and the Reeses.

56 + 16 = 72