Frank made cookies for his class. He gave away half of them in his first period class, but then his mom dropped off 12 more cookies. If he now has 32 cookies, how many did he start with?

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Nicholas Obert asked Nov 12, 2022

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Frank made cookies for his class. He gave away half of them in his first period class, but then his mom dropped off 12 more cookies. If he now has 32 cookies, how many did he start with?

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Work backwards to solve this problem.

If he ends with 32 cookies, then subtract 12. That gives 20 cookies. 20*2 is 40, so now he has 40 cookies.

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