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Mary has 36 stickers to give to 6 friends she says she can give each friend only 5 stickers use a division equation to describe Mary's error

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36/5 = 7r1 or 7.2: 36 divided by 5 is 7 remainder 1, so she will have 6 stickers left over as she can only give 6 to 5 friends and 5*6 is only 30
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6×5 = 30 and she has 36 sicket and six friends she can give one more sicker to each friend
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