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by danielanassar » Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:15 pm
This is a silly question but how you differentiate when to add or multiply when a questions says There are X more apples than bananas

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by OptimusPrep » Wed Jul 06, 2016 7:05 pm
danielanassar wrote:This is a silly question but how you differentiate when to add or multiply when a questions says There are X more apples than bananas

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There are X more apples than bananas implies Apples - Bananas = X
There are X times more apples than bananas implies Apples = X*Bananas

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by Matt@VeritasPrep » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:00 pm
Put it in words first:

Bananas + X more = Apples

Or think of it conceptually. We have MORE apples than bananas, so Bananas + More Bananas = Apples.
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