Question

4. Julia has saved 112 sand dollars and wants to give them away equally to p friends. Write an expression toshow how many sand dollars each of Julia's friends will receive. Then, find the total number of sand dollarseach of Julia's friends will get if Julia gives them to 8 friends.a. 112p; 14 sand dollars192; 14 sand dollarsb. 112-p; 104 sand dollarsd. 112 + p; 104 sand dollarsC.

Answer 1

We are told that Julia wants to give away 112 sand dollars among "p" number of friends. In order to determine that each friend will get an equal amount of sand dollars we need to divide the total number of sand dollars over the total number of friends, that is:

`(112)/(p)`

If there are 8 friends, that is "p = 8", then replacing the value of "p" in the previous equation:

`(112)/(8)=14`

Therefore, each friend gets 14 sand dollars. Therefore, the answer is:

`(112)/(p);14\text{ sand dollars}`