SOLUTION: Two students, Abby and Amy have the same number of chocolates. Abby has one full tub of chocolates and 21 remaining chocolates. Amy has one full tub of chocolates and 17 remaining

Question 1114552: Two students, Abby and Amy have the same number of chocolates. Abby has one full tub of chocolates and 21 remaining chocolates. Amy has one full tub of chocolates and 17 remaining chocolates. Determine the number of chocolates in a tub.
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:
Answer by ikleyn(52873) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Two students, Abby and Amy have the same number of chocolates. Abby has one full tub of chocolates and 21 remaining chocolates.
Amy has one full tub of chocolates and 17 remaining chocolates. Determine the number of chocolates in a tub.
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The problem says

x + 21 = x + 17

which is ABSURD and NONSENSE.

PLEASE do not litter the forum with nonsensical problems.

Answer by greenestamps(13208) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Are you kidding?!

In order to solve the problem to find the number of chocolates in a tub, we have to assume that that is a fixed number -- i.e., that every tub contains the same number.

But they can't have the same total number if each of them has one tub but they have different numbers of loose chocolates.

The problem makes no sense....
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