Question

Some students equally split some containers of strawberries each container held the same number of strawberries. The expression 9x/7 represents how many strawberries each person received when splitting x containers. What does the number 7 in the expression represent ? The number of containers that were split. The number of strawberries in each container. A total number of strawberries. The number of people the strawberries were split among

Answer 1

We are given expression:
`(9x)/(7)`.

Where, x is the number of containers number of strawberries.

And given expression represents how many strawberries each person received.

x is being multiplied with 9. So, the total number of strawberries in x container is 9x.

And 9x is being divided by 7.

That represents the total number of 9x strawberries are being divided in 7 students.

Therefore, the number 7 in the expression represent :The number of people the strawberries were split among