Singaporean Math problems 1

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Miss Chen brought q sweets to school. She gave 24 sweets to her colleagues and distributed the rest of the sweets equally among the 40 pupils in her class.

a) Find the number of sweets each pupil received in terms of q.
b) Miss check brought 144 sweets to school. How many sweets did each pupil receive?

Thank you to anyone who can answer these questions.
 
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Miss Chen brought q sweets to school. She gave 24 sweets to her colleagues and distributed the rest of the sweets equally among the 40 pupils in her class.

a) Find the number of sweets each pupil received in terms of q.
b) Miss check brought 144 sweets to school. How many sweets did each pupil receive?

Thank you to anyone who can answer these questions.
Total # of sweets for pupil = (Total # of sweets for everybody) - (#of sweets for colleagues) = q - 24 ...... continue....
 
Miss Chen brought q sweets to school. She gave 24 sweets to her colleagues and distributed the rest of the sweets equally among the 40 pupils in her class.

a) Find the number of sweets each pupil received in terms of q.
b) Miss check brought 144 sweets to school. How many sweets did each pupil receive?

Thank you to anyone who can answer these questions.

Once you've worked out the other two problems, make an attempt at this and show your thinking, so we can see what further help you need.

As a trial run without variables, you might work through what happens if q is 144. See how you'd do the calculation and then write an expression for it. Then do part (a), and use your result to do part (b).
 
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