Question

Some friends equally split some containers of strawberries. Each container held the same number of strawberries. The expression 9x7 represents how many strawberries each person received when splitting x containers. What does the number 7 in the expression represent?

Answer 1

If you mean
`(9x)/(7)` then the 7 represents the number of people the strawberries were split between.

Answer 2

In this problem we have the expression

`(9x)/(7)`

where

`x`--------> the number of containers that were split

`9`--------> the number of strawberries in each container

`7`--------> the number of people the strawberries were split among

`9x`------> the total number of strawberries

therefore

the answer is

the number
`7` in the expression represent the number of people the strawberries were split among