Sharing Jelly beans
This task is about adding, subtracting and dividing.
Kit bought a packet of jelly beans to share with her 6 friends. She sorted them into colours and wrote down how many of each she had.
12 white
9 black
18 red
16 green
8 yellow
9 blue
18 orange
15 pink
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a) How many jelly beans did Kit have altogether?
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b) If the jelly beans were shared equally how many would each of the 7 children get?
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c) Which 3 colours, added together, make up nearest to one-half of all the jelly beans?
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d) If Kit took all the pink ones and divided the rest among her 6 friends, how many would they each now get?
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