A delivery van starts with a fuel-account balance and ends 6 trips later with a change of -288 in balance, the same change each trip. Three of the trips actually had no change (balance change 0), and the rest shared the -288 equally. What was the balance change on each of the trips that did change?

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-96. Trips that changed = 6 - 3 = 3. Total change -288 over 3 trips: (-288) ÷ 3 = -96 each.

A delivery van starts with a fuel-account balance and ends 6 trips later with a change of -288 in balance, the same change each trip.
Three of the trips actually had no change (balance change 0), and the rest shared the -288 equally.
What was the balance change on each of the trips that did change?

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A delivery van starts with a fuel-account balance and ends 6 trips later with a change of -288 in balance, the same change each trip.Three of the trips actually had no change (balance change 0), and the rest shared the -288 equally.What was the balance change on each of the trips that did change?

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More Class 7 Division of Integers practice

A delivery van starts with a fuel-account balance and ends 6 trips later with a change of -288 in balance, the same change each trip.
Three of the trips actually had no change (balance change 0), and the rest shared the -288 equally.
What was the balance change on each of the trips that did change?