Question

several friends each had 2/5 of a bag of peanuts left over from the baseball game.they realized that they could have bought two fewer bags between them. How many friends went to the game?

Answer 1

the answer is 5.
Since each friend had 2/5 left, if you multiply that fraction by 5, you get 2.

Answer 2

5 friends.

Explanation:

Let x be the number of friends,

Since, each had 2/5 of a bag of peanuts left over,

Thus, the total numbers of bag left = 2/5 of the number of friends,

`=(2)/(5)x`

According to the question,

`(2)/(5)x=2`

`\implies x = 5`

Hence, there were 5 friends.