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Sophia baked a batch of 48 cookies. She wants to split them up evenly among 3 friends and herself. How many cookies will each person get?

Which signal word tells us that we'll be using division to solve this problem?

Group of answer choices

Many

Cookies

Split

Batch

User Putna
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Answer: For the signal word: Split. For how many cookies each person gets: 12

Explanation:

How many cookies each person gets:

To find how many cookies each person gets, we need to divide 4 into 48 since she is looking for how many cookies her 3 friends and herself are able to get out of the 48.

48/4 = 12

Therefore, the answer is that each person will receive 12 cookies.

Signal Word:

The definition of division is: the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.

Therefore only the word split refers to the number being separated into parts since split refers to breaking things in parts as well.

I will debunk the other answers below:

- Many could be used in any type of equation and it doesn't refer to the process of separating something into parts.

- Cookies is the subject and has nothing to do with division.

- Batch does not specifically refer to things being split. In this context, it is used to describe the 48 cookies, and not how they are being split.

I hope this helps :).

User Kyle Hayes
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Answer:

12

Explanation:

divide 48 by 4 because the 3 friends and herself then your answer should be 12

User Awsleiman
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