Thread: to find n number of item

Sam has 6 more marbles than joe .Together they have a total of 66 marbles. How many marbles has Sam?

Pleasee anybody can give a common formula to find the answer 36 ?.

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I think you can figure out the rest from here. I probably gave you too much help

Another way to look at it: 1/2 of 66 is 33 so if they had exactlly the same number, each would have 33. Also 1/2 of 6 is 3. If Joe now gave 3 of his 33 marbles to Sam, he would have 33- 3= 30 marbles and Sam would have 33+ 3= 36 marbles, so that Sam would have 6 more than Joe.

Thanks very much