Me charles cut fresh roses from his garden and gave 10 roses to his neighbor then he gave half of what was left to his niece he kept the remaining 14 roses how many roses did he cut

To answer the question above, we let x be the number of the roses Charles did cut from the garden. After giving out 10 roses, he only had x - 10 roses left. Giving away half of what was left will leave him with 14 roses after. The equation that best represent the given is,

14 = x - 10 - (x - 10) / 2

The value of x from the equation is 38.