Question

Maggie bought 2 boxes of cupcakes for her daughters. She ate one cupcake herself and told her 3 daughters to share the remaining cupcakes equally. If there were c cupcakes in each box, what is the expression for the number of cupcakes each daughter gets?

Answer 1

The total number of cupcakes is
`c+c=2c`. When Maggie ate one cupcake there are now
`2c-1` cupcakes left to divide between the 3 daughters. So each daughter gets
`\boxed{(2c-1)/(3)}` cupcakes.