Mrs. Ward has a bag of candies for her class. If she gives each student 8 candies, she will have 4 candies left. If she gives only 5 candies to each student, she will have 40 candies left. How many students are there in the class?

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genericnoodles · Answer

Ooo this is tricky. So we know if she gave each student 8 candies, she would have four left. Now if she takes 3 candies from per student, after she hands them out she will have 40 left.

genericnoodles · Answer

I'm not used to these kind of problems, but I think what we should do first is find the constant rate of the first part.

anonymous · Answer

I think the answer might be 12

anonymous · Answer

12 x 5 = 60 which would leave 40 
12 x 8 = 96 which would leave 4

genericnoodles · Answer

Good thinking! It would have taken me longer, but yes that is correct. That concludes that there are 90 pieces of candy, and 12 students.