Ming spent half of her weekly allowance on candy. To earn more money her parents let her weed the garden for $5. What is her weekly allowance if she ended with $12?

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Ben G.
Sep 22, 2017

$14

Explanation:

Ming is left with $12, after receiving $5. To find out how much she had before weeding the garden, we subtract 5 from 12: #$12-$5=$7#

This amount is, as the question states, half her weekly allowance (because she spent half of it on candy). Thus her weekly allowance must be twice what she had then, $7:
#2*$7=$14#

Therefore her weekly allowance is $14

You can also consider this as an equation:
Let #W=#weekly allowance:
#1/2W+5=12#

Rearranging for W:
#1/2W=12-5=7#
#W=7/(1/2)=7/1*2/1=14#

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