After N chocolate bars are divided equally among 6 children, 3 bars remain. How many would remain if (N + 4) chocolate bars were divided equally among the 6 children? Please elaborate on how to answer the question as I didn't understand the question properly.

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anonymous · Answer

Please stop me if I have a I explain this badly.

anonymous · Answer

Let's pretend that N is 9 right? when we split it between 6 kids there is 3 left over. Now we are saying the the number of chocolate bars is N+4. We have called N = 9 so N+4 = 13.

Now if we split this between the 6 kids they will get 2 each and there will be one left over. Does that make sense?

anonymous · Answer

The way to approach this type of question is either subbing in a value of N that makes sense, or approaching it from a modulo approach.

anonymous · Answer

I'm confused about the beginning of your explanation. Since there are N number of chocolate bars and as it is divided among 6 kids isn't the expression supposed to be N/6?

chihiroasleaf · Answer

"After N chocolate bars are divided equally among 6 children, 3 bars remain."

from this sentence, we know that 3 bars of chocolate remain, let say that each child get k bars of chocolate, 

now, you're asked 
"How many would remain if (N + 4) chocolate bars were divided equally among the 6 children?"

from the previous, we know that each child get k bars and you've 3 bars remain , now, you have 4 bars addition of chocolate, 
so, how many bars of chocolate that you need to divide among 6 children?

anonymous · Answer

I honestly still don't get it.

chihiroasleaf · Answer

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