Question #55510

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Max G.
Jan 17, 2018

There is not enough information here.

Explanation:

The original problem says that they share #35# sweets.
Without this number the problem is not workable.

Let x be Shane's sweets.
Then Gemma has 4x sweets.
Together they have 5x sweets.
Since #5x = 35#, we have #x = 7# and #4x = 28#.

"Gemma eats 10": She then has #18#.
Half of that is #9#
Gemma gave away 9 and still has 9.
But Shane now has #7 + 9 = 16#.

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