Question

Jake ate 1/6 of cookies at the Valentine's day party. If he ate 5 cookies, how many cookies were there in all.

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Answer 1

You just need to do 5 times 6 = 30. There were 30 cookies.

Answer 2

The total number of cookies are 30 .

Explanation:

Let us assume that the total number of cookies are x .

As given in the question be as follow.

Jake ate
`(1)/(6)` of cookies at the Valentine's day party.

If he ate 5 cookies .

Equation becomes

`(1)/(6)* x = 5`

Simplify the above

x = 5 × 6

x = 30

Therefore the total number of cookies are 30 .