Question

A christmas tree has 34 lights on it.

+ Half of them are white, and the other
half are colored. How many lights of
ny each kind are there?
34

Answer 1

There are 17 lights of each kind on the tree.

Each of the TWO colors takes up half of the lights, meaning we can divide the amount of lights on the tree to get the quantity of lights per color.

34 divided by 2 is 17, so there are 17 lights of each kind on the tree.

Answer 2

Since there's 34 lights and half of them are white and the other half are colored, half means 1/2 or divide by 2. We would do 34 divided by 2 and the answer is 17. There are 17 lights of each kind.

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