A packet of candy sweets has 30 cherry-flavored sweets, 40 strawberry-flavored sweets, and 50 pineapple-flavored sweets. Aaron eats half of each of the flavored sweets and gives 5 cherry-flavored sweets to his friend. How many sweets are still in the packet of candy? Give me reasons, before answering the question
Aaron eats 1 / 2 * 30 sweets + 1 / 2 * 40 sweets + 1 / 2 * 50 sweets = 60 candy sweets. The packet of candy sweets still has 60 sweets - 5 sweets = 55 candy sweets. So the final answer is 55.