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Grandma baked 96 cookies and gave them to her grandchildren. one of the grandchildren, cindy, received 5 fewer cookies than she would have received had all of the cookies been evenly divided among the h grandchildren. how many cookies did cindy receive? write your answer as an expression.

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Cindy received (96/h) - 5

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User Jared Price
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Let Cindy = c

Let Grand children = g

There are 96 cookies in all

C = 96/(g - 1) - 5 is your answer (as Cindy is also a grand children)

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