Question

You bake a batch of muffins. You freeze 6 muffins and share the rest equally among yourself and 2 friends. Write an expression that can be used to determine the number of muffins,m, each friend gets

Answer 1

Answer:

$m=\displaystyle \frac{t-6}{3}$

Step-by-step explanation:

Hi there!

Let t equal the total number of muffins.

$t-6$ ⇒ This represents freezing the 6 muffins

$\displaystyle \frac{t-6}{3}$ ⇒ This represents sharing the remaining muffins among 3 people

Therefore, the expression would be $\displaystyle \frac{t-6}{3}$.

If you would like to change this into an equation, it would be $m=\displaystyle \frac{t-6}{3}$, where m is the number of muffins that each person gets.

I hope this helps!