Question

Chef Morgan’s restaurant has 24 tables. Fifteen of the tables each have one flower in a vase. The remaining tables have 5 flowers in each vase. How many flowers are there? Show how you found the answer.

Answer 1

I think there is 45 flowers in total.

Answer 2

Answer: 60

Explanation:

Given : Chef Morgan’s restaurant has 24 tables.

Fifteen of the tables each have one flower in a vase.

Then, the number flowers on these 15 tables =15 (1)

The number of tables left = 24-15=9

Also, the remaining tables have 5 flowers in each vase.

Then, the number of flowers on the remaining 9 tables =
`9*5=45`

(2)

Now, from (1) and (2) we have

The total number of flowers = 15+45=60

Hence, there are 60 flowers.