Question

The cookie-stacking competition is a tradition at Westhaven's annual summer festival, and Bert is helping to set it up this year. The first contestant who creates a single stack using all of their cookies wins a prize! After Bert split all the cookies he had evenly among 4 contestants, each contestant got 24 cookies.

Let c represent how many cookies Bert had to start. Which equation models the problem?
Solve this equation to find how many cookies Bert had to start.
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Answer 1

C/4=24 so 4*24= 96.

Answer 2

The problem states that Bert split all his cookies evenly among 4 contestants, so the total number of cookies Bert had can be found by multiplying the number of cookies each contestant received by the number of contestants:

4 * 24 = 96

Therefore, Bert had a total of 96 cookies to start with.

We can also write an equation to represent the problem, where c represents the number of cookies Bert had to start with:

c / 4 = 24

This equation states that the number of cookies Bert had divided by the number of contestants (4) is equal to the number of cookies each contestant received (24).

To solve for c, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 4:

c = 4 * 24

c = 96

So the solution confirms that Bert had 96 cookies to start with.