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helen didvided her colored pencils evenly among herself and three freinds. write an expression to represent the number of pencils each person received

User Hans Rudel
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So, As Helen divides these pencils, she will divided among, herself, and also her other friends.

This would then signify that the expression would look like the following:


\boxed{p/(4)}

We really do not know how many pencils Helen had, so this is why p is in the equation.
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