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Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

We have been inundated with solutions to this problem - thank you so much! It is very difficult to pick some names to mention. Deiniol explained:

I found the answer by dividing the total number of each item of food by 2 (because there were two boys!). Each boy will have - 2 slices of pizza, 4 tomatoes, a carton of orange juice, half an apple and 2 muffins.

Anna and Eden from West Hill Primary wrote:

They would split the apple in half. They would have half a pizza each, two muffins each, four tomatoes each and one drink each.

Of course this is exactly the same as Deiniol's solution, but the amount of pizza is given in a slightly different way.


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