Question

Marie wrote this expression to describe the number of cherries she would give each friend
c ÷ 3
Which situation could be described by this expression?
A.
Marie does not know how many cherries she has to share. She knows she is sharing her cherries equally with 3 friends.
B.
Marie does not know how many cherries she has to share. She knows she will give each friend 3 cherries.
C.
Marie knows she has 3 cherries to share. She does not know how many friends she is sharing her cherries with.
D.
Marie knows she has 3 cherries to share. she does not know

Answer 1

D says Marie knows she has 3 cherries. She does not know how many cherries each friend will get.

Answer 2

A

Answer 3

@hartnn

Answer 4

The expression represents the number of cherries she will give each friend.
Let's say you have 6 books to give to 2 friends.
To know how many books each friend gets, you divide 6 by 2.
Here she is dividing c by 3.
That means she has c number of cherries to divide by 3 friends.

Answer 5

A is correct.

Answer 6

@misty1212

Answer 7

Whatever number of cherries she has, represented by the variable c, will be divided equally among 3 people.

Answer 8

thanks I have 1 moe if you could help

Answer 9

yw, and ok