Question 12. Peter the penguin goes fishing every day and brings back nine fish for his two chicks. Each day he gives five fish to the first chick he sees and four fish to the second chick. The chicks eat all the fish they get. Over the last few days, one chick ate 26 fish. How many fish did the other chick eat during those days? We need to recognize that a chick will either eat 5 or 4 fish. To get to the number 26, we have to have 5 plus 5 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4. We know that Peter the penguin always brings back 9 total fish. So to figure out how many fish the other chick ate, we just substitute these numbers for their opposites. So we'll have 4 plus 4 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5, which will give us our answer, 28. So the answer will be D, 28.

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