SOLUTION: Please help me with this equation: I have 80 marbles. I lose 0.2 of them and give away 0.5. How many marbles do I have left? I tried it a lot of times, but I kept on getting

Question 1030439: Please help me with this equation:
I have 80 marbles. I lose 0.2 of them and give away 0.5. How many marbles do I have left?
I tried it a lot of times, but I kept on getting 7.4.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You lost .
You give away .
So all totaled you don't have 56 of the original 80.
That leaves you with,

.
.
.
If you gave away 50% of what you had after you lost the first 16.
Then you gave away,

So then you would have,

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