SOLUTION: Mr. Waffle is a circus clown. He starts the day with sixty-eight pieces of candy. At the end of the day he has given away 383 pieces of candy. How many more pieces of candy did he

Question 321974: Mr. Waffle is a circus clown. He starts the day with sixty-eight pieces of candy. At the end of the day he has given away 383 pieces of candy. How many more pieces of candy did he have to get, in addition to his original sixty-eight, to be able to give away that many pieces?
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
He gave away 383.
He started with 68.

the difference is 383 - 68 = 315.

He needed to get 315 more pieces of candy to give away 383.l

315 + 68 = 383.

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