SOLUTION: A box of stickers was shared among four children. Faith and Ayan took {{{1/2}}} of the stickers while Julia and Shafiq took the rest. Ayan had {{{1/3}}} as many stickers as Faith

Question 1184558: A box of stickers was shared among four children. Faith and Ayan took of the stickers
while Julia and Shafiq took the rest. Ayan had as many stickers as Faith. Faith had twice
as many stickers as Julia. Shafiq had 45 stickers more than Ayan. How many stickers
were there in the box at first?
Answer by greenestamps(13198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let x be the number of stickers in the box.

Faith and Ayan took of the stickers while Julia and Shafiq took the rest.
[1]
[2]

Ayan had as many stickers as Faith.
[3]
[4]

Faith had twice as many stickers as Julia.
[5]

Then from [2] and [5],

Shafiq had 45 stickers more than Ayan.

ANSWER: 240

RELATED QUESTIONS
Ted and David shared 24 stickers in the ratio 3:5. David used 8 of his stickers. What... (answered by josgarithmetic)

In a class there are 6 boys and 10 girls. 82 stickers is shared among the students. If... (answered by shweta)

Stickers were sold only in big sheets of 60 stickers each and small sheets of 25 stickers (answered by ikleyn,math_tutor2020,greenestamps)

There are 3 green stickers, 2 yellow stickers, and 5 blue stickers. You draw a sticker... (answered by ewatrrr)

3 children share some stickers. Andrew has 1/5 of the stickers. Blaze has 10 more... (answered by ikleyn)

Luis and Cameron shared some stickers is the ratio 5:2. Luis received 15 more stickers... (answered by ikleyn,greenestamps)

The ratio of the number of stickers Aaron had to the total number of stickers Benedict... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

The ratio of the number of stickers Aaron had to the total number of stickers Benedict... (answered by greenestamps)

Jonathan had 147 more stickers than cards. He sold 1/3 of the cards and 1/6 of the... (answered by greenestamps)