Question

Brian has 5 marbles, Sarah has 9 marbles, Jimi has 4 marbles, and Juan has 6 marbles. They want to redistribute the marbles so that each person has the same number of marbles. If the marbles are redistributed, then how many should each person get?

Answer 1

6 marbles per person.

If we count the number of marbles in total, we get 24: 5+9+4+6= 24

Now that we know the Total # of marbles, we need to know how many people we need to distribute marbles to. We count Brian, Sarah, Jimi, and Juan and get 4 people in total.

To find how many marbles each person needs to receive, we then need to do 24 divided by 4.

When we do this, we get 6 marbles per person.