Question

Sunanda wants to distribute 4 sweets to each of her classmates. She runs short of 8
sweets. Find the number of sweets with her if there are x students in her class.​

Answer 1

Answer:

4x-8 nos. of sweets

Step-by-step explanation:

let the no. of students be x

and the no. of sweets per student is 4 therefore no. of sweets required

= 4×x

=4x

but she has 8 sweets less therefore total no. of sweets with her is 4x-8

Answer 2

Answer:

She has 4x - 8 sweets with her to start with

Step-by-step explanation:

No. of students in the class = "x"

If she had distributed 4 sweets to each student, she would have distributed a total of 4x sweets.

However, she falls short of 8 sweets

=> No.of sweets = 4x - 8

You can also do it as follows:

If she has fallen short of 8 sweets, it means that 2 students did not receive sweets. (because each student is to get 4 sweets)

Hence, the number of students that received sweets = x - 2

Each student got four sweets, hence the no. of sweets distributed is:

4(x - 2) = 4x - 8