SOLUTION: You and your brother are house painters. It's Tuesday and you have 4 cans of white paint at the beginning of the day. Your brother says that last week the two of you used half of

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Question 180078: You and your brother are house painters. It's Tuesday and you have 4 cans of white paint at the beginning of the day. Your brother says that last week the two of you used half of the white paint. You did not work on Sunday and you used 5 cans on Monday. How many cans did you have at the beginning of last week?

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You and your brother are house painters. It's Tuesday and you have 4 cans of white paint at the beginning of the day. Your brother says that last week the two of you used half of the white paint. You did not work on Sunday and you used 5 cans on Monday. How many cans did you have at the beginning of last week?
lets call the number of cans at the beginning of last week x
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x-(1/2)x-5=4
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(1/2)x=9
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highlight%28x=18%29cans at the beginning of last week