SOLUTION: There are two candy jars, each of which contains the same number of pieces of
candy. Bert takes 25 pieces of candy from the first jar and gives the rest to Karla, while Karla take
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Question 252539: There are two candy jars, each of which contains the same number of pieces of
candy. Bert takes 25 pieces of candy from the first jar and gives the rest to Karla, while Karla takes 17 pieces of candy from the second jar and gives the rest to Bert. When they are done, Karla discovers that Bert has more pieces of candy than she does. How many more pieces of candy does Bert have?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are two candy jars, each of which contains the same number of pieces of
candy. Bert takes 25 pieces of candy from the first jar and gives the rest to Karla, while Karla takes 17 pieces of candy from the second jar and gives the rest to Bert. When they are done, Karla discovers that Bert has more pieces of candy than she does. How many more pieces of candy does Bert have?
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Let the number of pieces in each jar be "x".
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Bert takes 25 pieces of candy from the first jar and gives the rest to Karla
Karla now has x-25 pieces.
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while Karla takes 17 pieces of candy from the second jar and gives the rest to Bert
Bert now has x-17 pieces.
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Inequality
Karla discovers that Bert has more pieces of candy than she does. How many more pieces of candy does Bert have?
Bert > Karla
x-17 > x-25
(x-17)-(x-25) > 0
8 > 0
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Bert has 8 more pieces than Karla
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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