Question

Benjamin finds 31 pinecones at the park. Together, jenna and ellen find the same number of pinecones as benjamin. How many pinecones could each girl have found?

Answer 1

One girl found 16 the other found 15
=31 which is equal to how many Ben found

Answer 2

Let's see, If Bejamin found 31 and Jenna and Ellan found 31 together we have to divide 31 in half

To do this we must first divide 30 30 / 2 is 15
Now we must divide 1 in half 1 / 2 is half of 1 which is .5

Then we must add 30 + .5 = 30.5