Question

Katie brought a birthday treat to school. She has 40 pieces of candy to share equally with the students in her class. If there are n students in the class, which expression shows how many pieces of candy each student will get?

Answer 1

2 candie each because if there 20 and 40 candie it well be 2:)`

Answer 2

Explanation:

Pieces = 40/n

Pieces = the number of pieces each student will get

n = the number of students in the class.

n

n has an upper limit of 40. Each student will get exactly 1 piece of candy

Other values of n could be

1 2 4 8 5 10 20 40