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Answer: The total cost of the gas before it was split among the friends.
Explanation: If they split it equally, they divide. 3g is divided by 4 so you know that there are 4 friends/people.
Since they are splitting the [total] amount of gas for 4 people, 3g must be the total cost of the gas.
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