document.write( "Question 1018974: A shopkeeper had 410 sweets. He put some on them into 15 packets containing 12 sweets each. He then put the rest into 24 packets, each containing the same number of sweets. A. How many sweets would there be in each of the 14 packets? B. How many sweets were left? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #634944 by josgarithmetic(39618)\"\" \"About 
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Study of the problem should account for the 410 \"sweets\".\r
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document.write( "pack size       packs       pieces of sweets\r\n" );
document.write( "    12           15              180\r\n" );
document.write( "    x            24              24x\r\n" );
document.write( "TOTAL                            410\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\"24x=410-180\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"24x=230\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"x=230%2F24\"------------Unless this study of the problem has a mistake or misunderstanding, your two questions are bad and the problem description is wrong. You must expect x to be a WHOLE number.
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