Question

Your high school is having a competition where students have to guess how many candy canes are in a jar. The tens digit is 4 more than twice the ones digit. The sum of the digits is 4. How many candy canes are in the jar

Answer 1

40

Explanation:

let ones be x

tens is 4 + 2x

4 + 2x + x = 4

3x = 0

x = 0

tens is 4 + 2*0

tens = 4

40 candy canes