Last month, Brenna and Richard sold candy to raise money for their debate team. Richard sold 1/2 as much candy as Brenna did. If Brenna sold 1/5 of a box of candy, how many boxes of candy did Richard sell?

Richard sold box of the candy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Number of boxes sold by Brenna =

We need to find the number of boxes sold by Richard.

Solution:

Now given:

Richard sold 1/2 as much candy as Brenna did.

So we can say that;

Number of boxes sold by Richard is equal to multiplied by Number of boxes sold by Brenna.

framing in equation form we get;

Number of boxes sold by Richard =

Hence Richard sold box of the candy.