Ella has a box of chocolate candies. She gives 1/3 of the candies to her sister, 4 to her brother, and eats the remaining 12 candies. How many chocolate candies were in the box originally?

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Penelope Decker

20 August, 22:56

Ella has a box of chocolate candies. She gives 1/3 of the candies to her sister, 4 to her brother, and eats the remaining 12 candies. How many chocolate candies were in the box originally?

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William Velasquez · Answer 1

24 candies originally

Step-by-step explanation:

Add the 4 to how many you had left, then think about that number, 16, and what goes into 16 evenly 2 times? 8 and originally she gave away 1/3 of the box and if you were to add another 8 to the box it would be 24 divided by 1/3, -,-4, = 12.