How many strawberries did he eat?

​For a snack, Sameer ate a plum with 32 calories and several strawberries with 4 calories each. If the total number of calories in Sameer’s snack was 56, how many strawberries did he eat?

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s = number of strawberries he ate

The plum was 32 calories and each strawberry is 4 calories. That equals a total of 56 calories.

32 + 4s = 56  {plum calories plus 4 calories times the number of strawberries equals 56 calories}
4s = 24 {subtracted 32 from each side}
s = 6 {divided each side by 4}

He ate 6 strawberries.

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