Question 1114550: Two students, Arthur and Oliver, each have some chocolates. They know that they have the same number of chocolates. Arthur has two tubs of chocolates, one bag of chocolates, and twenty-five loose chocolates. Oliver has two tubs of chocolates, two bags of chocolates, and seven loose chocolates. Determine the number of chocolates in a tub. Determine the number of chocolates in a bag.
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source):
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They each have two tubs; so those numbers of chocolates are the same.
Not counting the tubs, Arthur has one bag of chocolates and 25 loose chocolates; Oliver has two bags and 7 loose. If they both have the same total number of chocolates, then the difference in the number of loose chocolates they have (25-7=18) must be the number of chocolates in a bag.
There is no information given, in the problem as you show it, that allows us to determine the number of chocolates in a tub.
Answers: chocolates in a bag: 18. chocolates in a tub: unknown.
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