Question

12 cookies are in a bag. 6 children will share a bag of cookies. The children want to know how many cookies they will each get. Which number sentence would they use to answer the question?

Answer 1

12 / 6 = 2

Explanation:

If there are a total of 12 cookies, and these cookies will be divided evenly among 12 children, to find how many cookies each children will have, we just need to divide the total number of cookies by the total number of children:

Number of cookies per children = number of cookies / number of children

Number of cookies per children = 12 / 6 = 2

So each children will get 2 cookies.