Reann has stickers. She gives her friend half, and then her brother gives her 8 new ones. She ends up with 12 stickers. How many did she start with? Identify the operations needed to solve this problem.

Question

Reann has stickers. She gives her friend half, and then her brother gives her 8 new ones. She ends up with 12 stickers. How many did she start with? Identify the operations needed to solve this problem.
A. addition and multiplication
B. addition and division
C. subtraction and division
D. subtraction and multiplication

GPT 3.5 · Answer

C. subtraction and division

To solve this problem, you would subtract the 8 stickers her brother gave her from the 12 stickers she ends up with to find out how many stickers she originally had. You would then divide this number by 2 to find out how many stickers she started with.