Maggie bought 2 boxes of cupcakes for her daughters. She ate one cupcake herself and told her 3 daughters to share the remaining cupcakes equally. If there were c cupcakes in each box, what is the expression for the number of cupcakes each daughter gets?

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anonymous · Answer

please help!

valpey · Answer

Each box has c cupcakes. There are 2 boxes so total cupcakes = 2*c.
Maggie eats one so there are 2*c-1 cupcakes left.

These are split in three.

anonymous · Answer

these are the choices:

A. 2(c-1)
        3

B. 2(c+1)
         3

C. 2c-1
       3

D. 2c
     3    -1

E. 2c
     3  +1