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Sam has a box of candy with 52 pieces of candy left. The box had 100 pieces of candy before. How many pieces of candy has Sam eaten from the box?

  • A

    45

  • B

    48

  • C

    44

  • D

    47

This is a subtraction problem because we want to know how many pieces of candy Sam has eaten. We take the total number of candy pieces which is 100  and then we subtract the number of candy pieces that are left in the box.

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