Question

Zach gives abbey 8 pretzels. then he splits half of the pretzels he has left with maddie. zach lets p represent the number of pretzels he starts with. he finds that the number of pretzels that maddie has is 1/2 the difference of p and 8. write an expression to represent the number of pretzels that maddie has. $

Answer 1

Your expression would be:

(p - 8) ÷ 1/2