Question

Shaunee won 79 tickets at Chuck e' Cheese's. She

kept 25 of them, and split the rest evenly between 3
friends. How many did each friend get?
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Answer 1

79 tickets minus 25 is 54

Shawnee has 54 tickets to split between her friends.

54 divided by 3 friends equals 18 tickets.

You can check the answer by multiplying: 18x3 equals 54.

Hence, her friends each got 18 tickets...

Answer 2

Explanation:

From the problem statement, we can set up the following equation:

`3N + S = 79`

where
`N` is the number of tickets each friend got, and
`S` is the number of tickets that Shaunee got. We know that Shaunee got 25, so we know
`S = 25` and can plug that into the equation:

`3N + 25 = 79`

Subtracting 25 from each side gives us the following:

`3N = 54`

Dividing both sides by 3 gives us the answer:

`N = 18`