-Sorry, Im afraid I cant see your difficulty. If you take 5 counters out of bag A, it doesnt matter if there were 7*x counters in bag A, 45*y counters in bag A, or 238 counters in bag A.......
Since we do not know what x =, we cannot say x/2 = 5. We can only say that there are a total of 5 counters moved.
It may be a case of over-thinking. ;) It is a problem designed to see if you understand the concept of a common ratio. The common ratio does not affect individual terms.
Sorry, I'm afraid I can't see your difficulty.
If you take 5 counters out of bag A, it doesn't matter if there were 7*x counters in bag A, 45*y counters in bag A, or 238 counters in bag A. So long as there were more than 5 counters in bag A, you can take 5 counters out.
And adding those 5 counters to the 2*x counters in bag B will mean that you end up with 2*x + 5 counters in bag B.
The question is simply asking about the number of counters. So if you add 5 counters to bag B the number of counters increases from 2x to 2x+5. I think perhaps you are thinking about probabilities or fractions or ratios but the question is only asking about the number of counters.
