Question

Patrick baked 24 cookies. He gave one half to his neighbor. How many cookies does he have left?

Answer 1

Hint: Here in this question how many cookies is left with Patrick. To solve this question we read the question which is in the phrasal form we write in the form of numeral and with the help of the simple arithmetic operations we are going to solve this question. hence we obtain the required result for the given question.

Complete step by step solution:
In mathematics we have four different kinds of arithmetic operations namely
Addition, which adds the numbers and the sign for the addition is +
Subtraction, which subtracts the numbers and the sign for the subtraction is –
Multiplication, which multiplies the numbers and the sign for the multiplication is \[ \times \]
Division, which divides the numbers and the sign for the division is \[ \div \]
Now consider the given question
The Patrick baked 24 cookies, therefore the number of cookies Patrick baked = 24
Patrick gave half of the cookies to his neighbour. Therefore we divide the total number of cookies by 2.
On dividing the 24 by 2 we get 12.
therefore the Patrick gave 12 cookies to his neighbour
Now we have to find the how many cookies the Patrick has
Therefore,
The total number of cookies Patrick baked – The number of cookies Patrick gave to his neighbour
Therefore we have \[24 - 12\]
On subtracting we get
 \[24 - 12 = 12\]
Therefore the number of cookies are left with Patrick has 12
So, the correct answer is “12”.

Note: While using the arithmetic operations we must know about the numbers and the tables of multiplication. This is a word problem, where the word problem is converted into the numeral form. The arithmetic operations are used whenever it is needed and then we have to simplify.