Question

Sarah and her 4 friends share some cookies. If each person gets 3 cookies, how many cookies were shared?Write a mathematical equation that represents this situation.c\4 = 34c = 35 c = 3c\5 = 3

Answer 1

There are 5 people (Sarah and her 4 friends):

$p=5$

Each one of them gets 3 cookies:

$s=3$

If c is the number of cookies, we have the equation of the situation:

(# of cookies)/(# of people) = (# of shared cookies)

Finally:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{c}{p}=s \\ \\ \therefore\frac{c}{5}=3 \end{gathered}$