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Mark broughta bag of apples to share. Meganbrought apples to share, too. Fifteen apples plus15apples is 30 apples. That's a lot of apples. They will give 16 apples to theirfriends. Thirty minus16 equals14. They can dividethe leftoverapples by two, but will they each take half?
Conversation A
Mark: Hey, Megan. I brought some apples toshare.
Megan: I brought apples, too! Did you go to the sale at Freeway Supermarket?
Mark: I did! I bought a bag of 15 apples. How many did you get?
Megan: I also got 15 apples.
Mark: That means we have 25 apples to share!
Megan: Uh, no! Fifteen apples plus15 apples is 30 apples.
Mark: Oh . . . That's a lot of apples!
Conversation B
Megan: Let's give four apples to Carol. We canalso give four to Susie.
Mark: We should give four to Rob and four to Jim, too.
Megan: OK. Good idea.
Mark: Then we'll have 20 apples left.
Megan: No! Thirty minus16 equals14.
Mark: Oh . . . Sorry, I'm not very good at math.
Megan: You might not be good at math, but you are good at sharing!
Conversation C
(Later that day)
Mark: What should we do with these leftoverapples?
Megan: We can share them. You take half, and I'll take half.
Mark: What am I going to do with 8 apples?
Megan: No, Mark! When you divide14 by two, you get 7.
Mark: That's still too many apples for me to use. You take 10 apples.
Megan: Why 10?
Mark: You can make some apple pies.
Megan: To share?
Mark: Of course!
Answer it
1. How many apples will they give Carol?
2. What do you share with your friends?
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