Esteban finds 12 baseball cards on Monday and 24 more baseball cards on Tuesday. He gives some baseball cards to his sister, and now he has 13 baseball cards left. How many cards did he give to his sister? Esteban gave baseball cards to his sister.

Mathematics · High School · Mon Jan 18 2021

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Given the statement:

Esteban finds 12 baseball cards on Monday and 24 more baseball cards on Tuesday. He gives some baseball cards to his sister, and now he has 13 baseball cards left.

Determine how many cards did he gave to his sister.

Solution:

In order to determine the number of cards that Esteban gave to his sister, we simply need to add the total number of cards that he found on Monday and Tuesday, and then subtract it by 13 cards since he have 13 cards left.

= 12 baseball cards + 24 baseball cards

= 36 baseball cards 

= 36 baseball cards - 13 baseball cards

= 23 baseball cards.

Final answer:

He gave 23 baseball cards to his sister.