Question

Jenna has 30 buttons. She is organizing her buttons into 6 boxes. She puts the same number of buttons in each box. Write an expression that you use to find the number of buttons in each box.

Answer 1

The expression will be x = 30/6 and she'll have 5 buttons in each box.

Explanation:

In order to write the expression for the number of buttons in each box we first need to attribute a variable to that value, in this case we will use "x". The number x will be given by the division of all the buttons she has by the number of boxes she wants to organize them in. We have:

x = (number of buttons)/(number of boxes)

x = 30/6 = 5 buttons per box

The expression will be x = 30/6 and she'll have 5 buttons in each box.