Question

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?

Answer 1

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.