Question

Four friends, Jack, Ben, Carl, and Martha, have 60, 40, 20, and 80 candies, respectively.
They all combine their candies and decide to divide them in such a way that each of them gets an equal number of candies.

Find how many candies each of them will get after dividing them equally.

• A. 80
• B. 50
• C. 60
• D. 40

Answer 1

The correct option is B 50

Number of candies with Jack = 60
Number of candies with Ben = 40
Number of candies with Carl = 20
Number of candies with Martha = 80

Total number of candies =
60 + 40 + 20 + 80 = 200

Dividing the candies equally among 4 friends, we get:

Number of candies each friend gets = $\frac{Totalnumberofcandies}{Numberoffriends}$

$=\frac{200}{4}$

= 50

Thus, each friend gets 50 candies.