Ella has a box of chocolate candies she gives 1/3 of candies to her sister 4 to her brother and she eats the remanding 12 candies how many chocolate candies were in the box originally

Answer 1

Ella eats 12.

Before that she gave 4 to her bother so she had 12 + 4 or 16

16 is 2/3 of the box (she gave 1/3 to her sister)

16 = (2/3)x

Can you solve for x and answer?

Answer 2

x- x/3 -4 = 12

2x/3 = 16

x=48/2= 24 originally

24-24/3-4-12=0