Apps do not appear in applications folder, app store shows that they are installed

My system failed and I had my husband restore all the applications. He was installing Garage Band, iMovie ad iPhoto using the App Store. He paused the download of all the applications since the system had to to do a restart. When the system came back up, App Store was reporting that the applications were installed, but when I looked in the applications folder none of the applications were in the folder.
How do I restore these purchases?
Thanks

My husband was able to figure it out.
The problem was that the backup of my old system was connected and the old applications folder was found by the App Store App store. So App Store thought that the application was installed even though the application folder was not on the system drive.
The work around was disconnect the drive. My husband thinks that the the App Store should ignore any application that is not in the system Application folder.
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