Question

Problem -

Gretchen is setting up for a banquet. She has 300 chairs and needs to distribute them evenly among t tables.
How many chairs should she put at each table?
Write your answer as an expression.

Answer 1

Gretchen should distribute 300 chairs evenly across t tables, which is represented by the expression 300 / t, where t is the number of tables.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve the problem of how many chairs Gretchen should put at each table, we need to distribute the total number of chairs evenly among the tables. The expression for this will be:

Chairs per table = Total number of chairs / Number of tables

In Gretchen's case, she has a total of 300 chairs that need to be distributed evenly. Therefore, the expression is:

Chairs per table = 300 / t

Here, t represents the total number of tables. We do not know the exact number of tables, as it is not provided in the question, so we use t as a variable to represent this unknown value.

Answer 2

The expression is 300÷t.

Step-by-step explanation:

Number of chairs Gretchen has = 300.

Number of tables Gretchen has = t.

It is given that the chairs are evenly distributed among the given number of tables that is each table will have the equal number of chairs.

The number of chairs she should put can be found by the expression 300÷t.