At the beginning of the bake sale merry set aside two pies for herself Kate bought half of the remaining pies for a birthday party and 10 more pies were sold during the sale. When the sale was over were 14 pies remaining how many pies were there before the bake sale started

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10-02-2017
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At the beginning of the bake sale merry set aside two pies for herself Kate bought half of the remaining pies for a birthday party and 10 more pies were sold during the sale. When the sale was over were 14 pies remaining how many pies were there before the bake sale started

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jdoe0001 jdoe0001 · Answer 1 · 2017-02-10T21:35:05+01:00

so.. .at the beginning of the sale, there was a total of "x" pies

now, let's see what happened to those pies
[tex]\bf \begin{array}{lrlll} &pies\\\\ &\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash\textendash&\\ Mary&x-2\\\\ Kate&\cfrac{x-2}{2}\\\\ \textit{pies sold}&10\\\\ \textit{pies leftover}&14 \end{array}[/tex]

so, we had "x"
then Mary took 2, she left x - 2
Kate took half of that (x-2)/2
then 10 were sold, and 14 leftover

if we subtract all those figures, and solve for "x",
we should get what "x" was, so [tex]\bf (x-2)-\left( \cfrac{x-2}{2} \right)-10-14=0[/tex]

notice, if we subtract what Mary took, and Kate, and the sold and leftover, from the original "x", we would end up with no pies :)

so.. just solve for "x"