Question

I buy a box of candy, I eat 1/4 of candy lather I eat 1/2 more.now I have only 6 candies.

How many candies they where in the box at the beginning. please explain me how to do this problem

Answer 1

You have to work backwards. Add the two fractions together. That's 3/4. If you end up with 6, then 6 is 1/4 of the amount of candies you had in the first place. Multiply 6 by 4 to get the answer. :)

Answer 2

First, you multiply the number by 2, to find how many you had before you ate 1/2 of the candies.

6*2=12

Next, you would divide the number you just got, in this case it would be 12, by 3, because there is 3/4 of the original candy left

12/3=4

This means 1/4 of the original candies was 4, so you add 4 to 12 to find the final answer.

4+12=16

You had 16 candies in the beginning.

Let me know if this doesn't make sense.