Charlie and Noel picked 92 quarts of berries at the King's Orchard. If Charlie picked 6 more quarts than Noel picked, how many quarts did Noel pick?
Let N=number of quarts that Noel picked, then
N+6=number of quarts that Charlie picked, but we have:
N+N+6=92
N=43 quarts that Noel picked, and:
43+6=49 quarts that Charlie picked.
First, we subtract 6 from the 92, because we are taking away what Charlie picked 6 more than Noel and after this we can devide by 2. 92-6= 86, then we divide by two because there were two people picking berries, and we already took out the difference from the two. 86 divided by 2 is 43. Noel picked 43 quarts of berries at the King's Orchard. This is simply another method and an explained version of what the previous answer was. If I was just doing an equation, it would look like this: 92-6=86 DO NOT USE THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY FOR THIS PROBLEM.
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