Question

You have baked 48 cookies. You want to keep 12 for your family, the rest you want to split between 9 friends. How many cookies will each friend receive?

Answer 1

each friend will recieve 4 cookies

Explanation:

if you take away the 12 cookies and give them to your family, you are then left with 36 cookies, once you devide those by the 9 friends you get four, representing the amount of cookies ea ch friend will have

Answer 2

4 cookies each

Explanation:

48 - 12 = 36 cookies for friends

36/9 = 4 cookies for each friend