Giraffe teacher gave the kid a question: in a subtraction formula, the sum of the subtracted, the subtracted and the difference is 48, how much is the subtracted? How do you guess the goat solved the problem?

Giraffe teacher gave the kid a question: in a subtraction formula, the sum of the subtracted, the subtracted and the difference is 48, how much is the subtracted? How do you guess the goat solved the problem?

Because the subtracted = subtracted + difference, the sum of the subtracted, subtracted and difference is 48, so the subtracted × 2 = 48, then the subtracted = 48 △ 2 = 24