Question

Some friends equally split some containers of strawberries. each container held the same number of strawberries. the expression 9x/7 represents how many strawberries each person received when splitting x containers. what does the number 7 in the expression represent?

Answer 1

(9x)/7

let me break it down...
there were 9 containers.....each container had x number of strawberries....thats the 9x
divided by 7.....divided by the number of friends.

so the 7 stands for the total number of friends