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Thank you We see word problems with addition and subtraction

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at no extra charge Allah shmoop a goose This gloopy

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and his even fatter brother gargantua Psg loop like chocolate

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We mean really really like chocolate Their parents may not

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know how to tell their sons No but if they're

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there well they always make sure to overfeed their boys

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Equally way to go Parents of the year Well the

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ge loops explain to their little angels that they had

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four boxes all containing the same number of chocolates to

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augustus They gave one full box of chocolate plus five

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individual pieces Who gargantua ce They gave three boxes of

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chocolate plus one individual thief get both boys were given

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the same total number of chocolates How many chocolates are

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in each box Well we can start by writing this

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as an equation where b is what we're looking for

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A number of chocolates in a box All right wilby

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plus five that's a goose This equals three v plus

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one that's Gargantua Well we want to get all the

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boxes on one side of the equation to make this

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problem easier to solve We could do whatever we want

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Toe one side of the equation as long as we

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also do it to the other side So let's subtract

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a b from both sides Now we have the equation

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Five equals b plus one next week and subtract one

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for meat side and we get four equals to be

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all we have to do at this point it's by

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both sides of the equation by two and we see

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that b equals two In other words there are only

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two chocolates in each box Kind of a letdown for 00:01:37.022 --> [endTime] the boys Thank heavens that oh

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