Question

Stephanie collected maple syrup from some of her trees. From the first set of trees, she collected 2 gallon of syrup. The second

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and third set of trees yielded 3 gallons each.

Part A: How many gallons of syrup did she collect in all?

Part B: After using some of the syrup she collected for cooking, Stephanie found that she only had a gallons of syrup left. How

much syrup did she use for cooking?

Answer 1

Part A - 8

Part B - 7

Explanation:

Part A

She collected 8 gallons of syrup in total. Two gallons from first tree, three gallons from second tree and three gallons from third tree.

Part B

She used seven gallon of syrup for cooking.

She is left with one gallon syrup only out of total eight gallon syrup