Write the equation that will solve the problem & solve. e) Ejay bought a pack of peanut bars from the neighborhood store. He ate 1/3 of the contents immediately. He gave 20 pieces to his sister Aileen. Then he ate 1/2 of the remaining bars. If he has 25 peanut bars left, how many bars did the pack originally contain?
Let's consider "x" be the number of peanut bars the pack originally contain.
He ate 1/3 of the contents immediately.
i.e. x/3-----------(1)
Therefore the number of bars left are (2x/3).
Out of which he gave 20 pieces to his sister Aileen.
Therefore the number of bars left are (2x/3-20)= (2x-60)/3
out of (2x-60)/3 he ate 1/2 of the bars and still have 25 peanut bars lest.
This implies,
Hence the number of peanut bars the pack originally contains are 105 bars.
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