Twenty pounds of strawberries are being split equally by a group of friends. The equation 20 divided by 5 = 4 represent the divsion of strawberries.
Answers
Step-by-step explanation:
a. 4 represents the amount of pounds of strawberries each friend got.
b. 4 represents the number of friends who were sharing the strawberries.
Step-by-step explanation:
The complete exercise is: "Twenty pounds of strawberries are being shared equally by a group of friends. The equation 20÷5= 4 represents the division of strawberries.
a. If the 5 represents the number of people, what does the 4 represent?
b. If the 5 represents the pounds of strawberries per person, what does the 4 represent?"
You need to analize the information given in the exercise.
You know that the total amount of pounds of strawberries that are shared equally is:
Total = 20 lb
a. Then if the group of people is formed by 5 friends, you need to divide the total pounds of strawberries that by 5 in order to calculate the amount of pounds of strawberries each one of them got.
If in the equation 20÷5= 4,5
represents the number of people,
then 4 represents the amount of
pounds of strawberries each friend
got.
b. If each person got 5 pounds of strawberries, you can calculate the number of friends who was sharing them by dividing the total pounds of strawberries by 5.
So, if in the equation 20÷5=4, 5 represents the pounds of strawberries per person, then 4 represents the number of friends who were sharing the strawberries.