Answer:
200 pieces of candy.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the amount of candy we had to begin with.
We ate 70% or 0.7 of our starting amount x.
After eating 70% of x, we are left with 140 empty wrappers.
Therefore, 70% or 0.7 of x is 140. So, we can write the following equation:
[tex]0.7x=140[/tex]
To find the original amount of candy, we just have to solve for x.
So, let’s divide both sides by 0.7:
[tex]\displaystyle x=\frac{140}{.7}=200[/tex]
Therefore, we started out with 200 pieces of candy.
