Bethany has 43 apples. Write a subtraction story about the apples that would require regroping. Then write the answer in a complete sentence.

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
13 years ago

Bethany has 43 apples. She gave 15 of them to her neighbor. How many does she have left?

User Icon for Kiara Kiara answered
12 years ago

43-15=28

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago

To write a subtraction story about Bethany's apples that would require regrouping, we can imagine the following scenario:

Bethany had 43 apples, and she decided to divide them equally among her 4 friends. However, she realized that each friend could only have a maximum of 9 apples. In this case, we need to regroup and subtract in order to find out how many apples Bethany will have left after giving her friends their fair share.

Subtraction story: Bethany had 43 apples. She shared 9 apples with each of her 4 friends.

To solve this problem through regrouping, we can start by subtracting 4 groups of 9 apples from the 43 apples:

43 - 9 - 9 - 9 - 9

Subtracting 9 from 43, we have:

43 - 9 = 34

Now, we have 34 apples left. Subtracting another 9:

34 - 9 = 25

Continuing this process, we subtract another 9:

25 - 9 = 16

Lastly, subtracting the final 9:

16 - 9 = 7

Therefore, Bethany will have 7 apples left after sharing 9 apples with each of her 4 friends.

Answer: After sharing 9 apples with each of her 4 friends, Bethany will have 7 apples remaining.