Question

To help raise funding for homeless’ Thanksgiving Dinner, Christina and her friends sell chocolate bars during lunch time. They sold 2/5 of the total on day one, and sold 1/2 of the leftover on day two. On day three, they sold 1/3 less than sales on day one, and are left with 50 leftover bars. What was the total chocolate bars they had at the beginning?

Answer 1

2/5 x + 1/5 x + 4/15 x + 50 = x

Answer 2

375