Question

Payton runs a gas station on Route 66. On Thursday, exactly half of his bags of chips got sold to customers. On Friday when he restocked the shelves, he put out 68 more bags of chips. If there are now 200 bags of chips, how many did the gas station start with on Thursday morning?

Answer 1

264

Explanation:

If there are 200 bags of chips after the addition of 68 more bags of chips, subtract the two to get the amount before he added the bags of chips.

200 - 68 = 132

This is exactly half of what he originally had. Multiply this value by 2.

132 × 2 = 264

Payton originally had 264 bags of chips on Thursday morning.