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A chef got 8 bags of onions. The red onions came in bags of 2 and the yellow onions came in bags of 6. If the chef got a total of 28 onions, how many bags of each type of onion did he get?

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Answer:

3 yellow onion bags, 5 red onion bags

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Answer: First you have to think about what to multiply 9 by to get a number that ends with 6. The answer to that is 3. So 9*3=36. Then you need to subtract 36 from 86. You get 50. So now you need to divide. 36/9=3 and 50/10=5. So the chef bought 3 bags of red onions and 5 bags of yellow onions.

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