Question

helen didvided her colored pencils evenly among herself and three freinds. write an expression to represent the number of pencils each person received

Answer 1

So, As Helen divides these pencils, she will divided among, herself, and also her other friends.

This would then signify that the expression would look like the following:

$\boxed{p\div(4)}$

We really do not know how many pencils Helen had, so this is why p is in the equation.