### Instruction: Tim has some cans of soda. Jeff comes by, and takes 6 cans of soda from Tim. Tim then goes and buys another half the amount of soda cans he had left. If Tim has 24 cans of soda in the end, how many cans of soda did Tim have at first? Let's write a Python program.### Response: # Define the variables
cans_initial = 0

# Tim has 24 cans after Jeff took 6 and he bought half the amount he had left
# So, before he bought more, he had 24 - (half the amount he had after Jeff took 6) = 24 - (24/3) = 16 cans
# Therefore, before Jeff took 6, he had 16 + 6 = 22 cans
cans_initial = 16 + 6

# Print the initial number of cans
print(cans_initial)