Grandma baked 9 6 96 cookies and gave them to her grandchildren. One of the grandchildren, Cindy, received c c fewer cookies tha

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n she would have received had all of the cookies been evenly divided among the 8 8 grandchildren. How many cookies did Cindy receive?

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san4es73 [151] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-30T18:55:15+03:00

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Answer:

$12-c$ Cookies

Step-by-step explanation:

If all 96 cookies were evenly divided among 8 people, each would have gotten:

Each person = $\frac{96}{8}=12$ cookies

<u><em>But Cindy received $c$ fewer than what she should have received (12 cookies). So Cindy got:</em></u>

$12-c$ cookies