Question

Rasheed bought two kinds of candy bars, chocolate and toffee, that came in packages of 2 bars each. He handed out 2/3 of the chocolate bars and 3/5 of the toffee bars. How many packages of chocolate bars did Rasheed buy

Answer 1

Rasheed bought 3 packages of chocolate and 5 packages of toffee.

Explanation:

In this case we have to found the number of bars that multiplied by the fractions presented give us an integer number and meets with the fact that the bars are an odd number because the packages came in packs of two bars.

For the case of the chocolate we have to find a number that meets this characteristics, we try with the number 6:

`6*(2)/(3) =4`

For chocolate Rasheed bought 3 packages, we can see that 6 bars meet the asked.

For the case of toffee, we try with number 10:

`10*(3)/(5) =6`

For toffee Rasheed bought 5 packages, we can see that 10 bars meet the asked.

Rasheed bought 3 packages of chocolate and 5 packages of toffee.