Several friends each had 2/5 of a bag of peanuts left over from a baseball game. They realized that they could have bought 2 fewer bags of peanuts between them. How many friends went to the game
Well, each friend has 2/5 of a bag of peanuts left.
1 friend = 2/5 of a bag of peanuts left - 0.4 left
The goal here is to figure out how many people with that amount equal 2 for the amounts of peanuts.
So, we'll go one at a time.
2 friends = 4/5 of a bag of peanuts left together. - 0.8 left
3 friends = 6/5 of a bag of peanuts left together. - 1.2 left
4 friends = 8/5 of a bag of peanuts left together. - 1.6 left
5 friends = 10/5 of a bag of peanuts left together. - 2 left
So, there are 5 friends total.
I hope this helps! :)
Keeping it simple, how many 5ths are in the 2 "extra" bags? 2=10/5. How many bag "remainders" of 2/5ths are needed to equal 10/5? The answer is 5!
2/5 + 2/5 + 2/5 + 2/5 + 2/5 = 10/5
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It’s 5
It is 5
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This answer is incorrect. The correct answer is that there were 5 friends that went to the game. To see why, you can use the same equations as above:
2/5 = x * 1/2
If we subtract 2 from both sides, we get:
3/5 = x
B - 2 = x
B = x + 2
R + B = x + 2
Substituting the values we calculated above for B and x on the right-hand side of the equation:
R + (x + 2) = x + 2
We can simplify this equation to find the value of R:
R = 10/5 = 2
Therefore, there were 2 bags of peanuts left over between the friends. To figure out how many friends there were, we can divide the amount of leftover peanuts by the amount of peanuts each friend had:
2 / (2/5) = 5
So there were 5 friends that went to the game.