Twenty-four packets of sheet music are in a folder. If the chorus students decide to share 38
of the packets, how many did they share?(1 point)
Responses
12 packets
12 packets
18 packets
18 packets
8 packets
8 packets
9 packets
The correct answer is 12 packets.
To find out how many packets the chorus students shared, we subtract the number of packets they shared (38) from the total number of packets in the folder (24):
24 - 38 = -14
Since we cannot have a negative number of packets, the chorus students did not share any packets.