Question

Kendra is babysitting her cousins, who are quintuplets. At snacktime, Kendra puts 5 plates on the table. She cuts apples into slices and places an equal number of slices on each cousin's plate. There is a total of 35 apples slices on the plates.

Which equation can you use to find the number of apple slices s on each plate?

Answer 1

Kendra is watching over 5 children. She wants to be sure that they each have an even number of apple slices. There are 35 apple slices total. She wants to take 35 and put it equally into 5 groups.

Your equation would be 5s=35, where s would be the total amount of apple slices on each plate.

To solve this equation you would divide both sides by 5 to get 7. s=7 (35/5=7)

Each quintuplet would be 7 apple slices.

Hope this helps ;)