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At a store there are 5 vases each vase has the same number of flowers 16 flowers are sold now there are 24 flowers left how many flowers were in these vase?

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their was 8 flower per vase hope this helps you

User Mosselman
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Let f=number of flowers in a vase, then:

5f-16=24 add 16 to both sides

5f=40 divide both sides by 5

f=8

So there were 8 flowers per vase in the beginning.
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