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Surprise Party (catata.fish)

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David is throwing Robert a surprise birthday party but he has to stay within his budget. He spent half of his money plus $2.00 on the cake. Half of what he had left plus $2.00 was spent on balloons and streamers. Then he spent half of what he had left plus $1.00 on candy. Now he is out of money, how much did he start with?

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This one is best solved working backwards, the last part David spent half of what was left plus $1.00 on candy and then was out of money. That means he must have spent $2.00 on Candy as $1.00 was half of what he had using the same logic backwards: $2.00 on candy $6.00 on Balloons and Streamers $12.00 on the cake Total of $20.00.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is a great idea, the only thing that I would suggest is maybe doing the answer is a separate post the next day, so you give people a chance to post their answer in the comments without having it in their face. Otherwise, great work!