Answer: 5 pack
Step-by-step explanation:
From the question, we are informed that Sebastian bought a 30-pack of mechanical pencils and plans to give his friends an equal number of pencils to the 6 friends.
Therefore, each friend will get:
= 30 / 6
= 5 packs
Here's a pattern to consider:
1+100=101
2+99=101
3+98=101
4+97=101
5+96=101
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This question relates to the discovery of Gauss, a mathematician. He found out that if you split 100 from 1-50 and 51-100, you could add them from each end to get a sum of 101. As there are 50 sets of addition, then the total is 50×101=5050
So, the sum of the first 100 positive integers is 5050.
Quick note
We can use a formula to find out the sum of an arithmetic series:

Where s is the sum of the series and n is the number of terms in the series. It works for the above problem.
1 and 1/2x+3/4x=5/8
combine x's
1 and 1/2x=4/4x+2/4x=6/4x
6/4x+3/4x=5/8=9/4x
9/4x=5/8
multiply both sides by 8
18x=5
x=5/18
x=5/18 or aprox 0.277777777777
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