Question

Jared had 26.5 cookies to share between his 5 friends. How many cookies does each friend get? 1. In the box below type which operation you would use: Division Addition Subtraction Multiplication 2. Why did you pick this operation?

Answer 1

We have to divide the total amount of cookies between the 5 friends in equal parts.

So we do:

`(26.5)/(5)=5.3`

Each of the friends gets 5.3 cookies.

We need to divide because we have a total quantity and we want to know what is this quantity divided in 5 equal parts, so the right operation is division.