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Last month, Brenna and Richard sold candy to raise money for their debate team. Richard sold 1/2 as much candy as Brenna did. If Brenna sold 1/5 of a box of candy, how many boxes of candy did Richard sell?

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Answer:

Richard sold
(1)/(10) box of the candy.

Explanation:

Given:

Number of boxes sold by Brenna =
\frac15

We need to find the number of boxes sold by Richard.

Solution:

Now given:

Richard sold 1/2 as much candy as Brenna did.

So we can say that;

Number of boxes sold by Richard is equal to
(1)/(2) multiplied by Number of boxes sold by Brenna.

framing in equation form we get;

Number of boxes sold by Richard =
\frac12*\frac15=(1)/(10)

Hence Richard sold
(1)/(10) box of the candy.

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