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Share 132 sweets equally between eight

children so that four are left over. How many
sweets will each child get?​

User Yingying
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Answer:

16

Step by Step:

Translate this question into algebra.

You should see something as follows:


8x=132-4

4 subtracted from 132 is 128, so the equation will now look like


8x=128

Now solve the equation by dividing both sides by 8


x=16

Hope this helped :D

User Ben Childs
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