Question

Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share with a book club. Each box contains 12 cookies. The expression represents the number of cookies that each person, p, can have if the cookies are divided equally. Which evaluations of the expression are correct? Select three options.

Answer 1

ANSWER:

Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share. The algebraic expression is $\frac{36}{x}$

Solution:

Given, Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share with a book club.  

Each box contains 12 cookies.  

So, in total we have 3 x 12 cookies = 36 cookies.

Now, we have to find how many cookies can each person p will get.

Let, the total number of persons be x.

Then, after equally sharing the cookies,

$\text { Number of cookies with each person }=\frac{\text {number } of \text { cookies available.}}{\text {total number of persons}}$

$=\frac{36}{x} \text { cookies. }$

Hence, the algebraic expression is $\frac{36}{x}$

Answer 2

Answer:

If p = 7, then each person would get 5 cookies, with 1 cookie left over.

If p = 10, then each person would get 3 cookies, with 6 cookies left over.

If p = 11, then each person would get 3 cookies, with 3 cookies left over.

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