there was a box of candy on the table. Maureen was hungry because she hadn't had breakfast, so she ate half the candy. then sanju cam along and noticed the candy. He thought it looked good, and had not packed a lunch, so he took two-thirds of what was left in the box. Suzanne came by and decide to take three-fourths of the remaining candies with her to her next class. Then Arpita came dashing up and took one piece of candy to munch on. When Kristen looked at the candy box, she saw that there was just one piece of candy left. How many pieces of candy were there in the box to begin with? she asked Maureen.
solve the candy problem. Construct two different representations such as geometric and algebraic or numeric that can be used to show the solution to this problem. Explain the correspondence between the problem and each representation, as well as between the two representations.
