After stocking up firewoood, the worker summed up that from the certain number of logs he made 72 logs besides 53 cuts were made. He saws only one log at a time. How many logs were at the beginning? A. 18 B. 19 C. 20 D. 21
The answer is C: 19 logs.
There were: \(72-53=19\left(logs\right)\)