Question

Here is a story: Lin bought 4 bags of apples. Each bag had the same number of apples. After eating 1 apple from each bag, she had 28 apples left. Please explain what the equation would be, how you found that and what the answer would be and how you found that. (Describe how you would find the unknown amount and please make it clear!)

Answer 1

Lin now has total apple left=28

she ate apple =4

total apple was =32

each bag had no of apple=32/4 =8

the equation can be as follows

let the no of apple was X

according to question

x-4 =28

Answer 2

Given :

Lin bought 4 bags of apples. Each bag had the same number of apples. After eating 1 apple from each bag, she had 28 apples left.

To Find:

Explain what the equation would be, how you found that and what the answer would be and how you found that.

Step-by-step explanation:

• As it is given that each bag have same no of apples . Then let us take The total no of apples bought by Lin is  x.
• As Lin eat $1$ apple from each bag so she ate $4$ apples
• $x=28+4\\x=32$

The no of apples in the starting are 32.