Question

Emily and Olivia are selling chocolate bars. Emily sold twice as many as Olivia. They sold a total of 48 bars. How many chocolate bars did they each sell?

Answer 1

Olivia sold 16 chocolate bars and Emily sold 32.

Explanation:

Let's set the amount of chocolate bars Olivia sold as x.

Since Emily sold twice as many, she would have sold 2x chocolate bars as a result.

Therefore, since the total is 48 bars, the equation would be
`x + 2x = 48`.

`x + 2x = 48`

`3x = 48`

`x = 16`

Hence, Olivia sold 16 chocolate bars.

Substituting the new value into the equation, we would find that Emily had sold 2x = 2(16) = 32 chocolate bars.

Checking the answer, we would find that (16 + 32) chocolate bars is indeed 48 chocolate bars, which fits the question.

Finally, we can arrive at the conclusion that Olivia sold 16 chocolate bars and Emily sold 32.

Hope this helped!