Question

Rua and Liz have a bag of 24 cherries. Liz keeps most for herself, but gives some to Rua. He complained, so she gave him five more. She then had one Cherry fewer than 1.5 times the number of cherries that Rua had. Write an equation and solve it to find how many cherries she gave to Rua at the start.

Answer 1

8 cherries

Explanation:

Let r represent the number of cherries Rua was given

24 - r - 5 = 1.5r - 1

Simplify and solve for r.

19 - r = 1.5r - 1

-2.5r = -20

r = 8

So Liz gave Rua 8 cherries at the start.