SOLUTION: Clifford had 80% fewer sweets than Ashwin. After Ashwin gave 210 sweets to Clifford, Clifford had 2/3 as many sweets as Ashwin. How many sweets did each of them have in the end? (

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Question 1195448: Clifford had 80% fewer sweets than Ashwin. After Ashwin gave 210 sweets to Clifford, Clifford had 2/3 as many sweets as Ashwin. How many sweets did each of them have in the end?
(a) Ashwin
(b) Clifford
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) About Me  (Show Source):
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Clifford and Ashwin

w, the amount Ashwin started with.
80% of w is 0.8w.

Clifford started with w-0.8w=0.2w.

That is just for a beginning; one possible way. This here is not any finished solution.