On Friday, Jason decided to pass out bags of candy to children in his class. He put 40 pieces of candy into 5 bags. Each bag had the same amount of candy. If Jason only gave away 3 bags of candy, how many pieces of candy did he give away?
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Step 1: Divide the total number of pieces of candy (40) by the number of bags (5) to find out how many pieces of candy are in each bag. Show more…
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