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Elyse is putting candy into her family's Christmas stockings. She has a bag of 55 candies. She eats 7 of them and then puts an equal amount of candies into each of the 6 stockings. How candies go into each stocking?

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Answer:

eight

Explanation:

User Amy Teegarden
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Answer:

8 candies

Explanation:

Total number of candies = 55 candies

Number of candies left after eating 7 candies= 55-7 = 48

Number of stockings = 6

To find the equal number of candies into each stocking, we will divide the left candies by number of stockings:

=48/6

=8

Therefore each stocking has 8 candies....

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