Question

Sarah and her 3 friends split a bag of candy evenly .they each ate 13 pieces of candy their were 2 pieces left over. how many pieces of candy were originally in the bag?

Answer 1

No.of candies they ate = 4*13=52

Left candies=2

Total candies are 52+2= 54

Answer 2

54 pieces of candy were originally in the bag .

Explanation:

We are given that Sarah and her 3 friends split a bag of candy evenly

Total no. of persons = 4

Each ate no. of pieces of candy = 13

So, 4 persons ate no. of pieces of candy =
`13 * 4 = 52`

So, they ate 52 candies in total .

We are also given that 2 pieces left over.

So, no. of candies initially = 52+2 = 54

Hence 54 pieces of candy were originally in the bag .