Question

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.
Describe how you would find the unknown amount in the story

Answer 1

To find the unknown amount of apples in each bag, we can set up the following equation:

Let x be the number of apples in each bag.

4x - 4 = 28

Simplify the equation:

4x - 4 = 28
4x = 32
x = 8

Therefore, there were 8 apples in each bag originally.