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sams class has collected 52 cans in a food drive. they plan to sort the cans into a x bags, with an equal number of cans in each bag. Write an expression to show how many cans there will be in each bag

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Answer:

52/x

Explanation:

For example, say that we want to sort the cans into 2 bag

82/2 = 26 There will be 26 cans in each bag.

Say we had 4 bags

52/4 = 13 There would be 13 cans in each bag. The x just lets us generalize this to different numbers of bags.

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