Why does the prove statement appear at the beginning of the proof?

Tod does not have any cookies. david gives jeff 8 cookies. then he splits half of the cookies he has left with tod. david let’s c represent the number of cookies that he starts with. he finds the number of cookies that tod has is 1/2 the difference of c and 8. write an expression to represent the number of cookies that tod has.

Molly shared a spool of ribbon with 12 people. each person received 3 feet of ribbon. which equation can she use to find r, the number of feet of ribbon that her spool originally had?

What is always true when two whole numbers are subtracted?