Question

aiden had some pencils that he split even between him and his 3 friends. if he had a total of 40 pencils, write an equation that can be used to find out how many pencils each friend got. how many pencils did each friend receive?

Answer 1

4x=40 and each friend would get 10 pencils

Explanation:

this is because there were four people in total and there were an unknown amount of pencils per person which is x. so that would be the equation. then u divide 4 by each side and u would get x=10. which means 10 pencils per person.

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