SOLUTION: On the annual day of ken school, it was planned ti distribute some sweets equally among 98 students. But 28 of dose students were absent that day. As a result, each of the student

Question 1041660: On the annual day of ken school, it was planned ti distribute some sweets equally among 98 students. But 28 of dose students were absent that day. As a result, each of the student present received 4 sweets more. Find the total number of sweets distributed.

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's call the total number X.
If there were 98 students, each student would have gotten,

However since there were 28 absent, each student got,
or substituting
So then you can find the total number of candies given by multiplying the amount per student and the number of students,

Multiply both sides by ,

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