Mrs. carter baked 100 muffins for a bake sale. the muffins were sold in packages in 2. there were 12 muffins left. write an equation to find how many customers bought muffins at the bake sale. model the equation using a flowchart.

100 muffins, and 2 in each packages. Therefore, there are 50 packages. However, at the end, there are 12 left, so there must have been 6 packages left. (12/2) 50-6=44. 44*2=88 so 88 muffins were bought. 

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