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

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You lost 80%280.2%29=16.
You give away 80%280.5%29=40.
So all totaled you don't have 56 of the original 80.
That leaves you with,
80-56=24
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If you gave away 50% of what you had after you lost the first 16.
Then you gave away,
%2880-16%29%2A0.5=64%2A0.5=32
So then you would have,
80-16-32=+32