Question

The teacher has 125 pencils they want to arrange in y amount of containers in the class. Write an expression to show how many pencils will be in each container.

Answer 1

125/y

Explanation:

Answer 2

`(125)/(y)`

Explanation:

If you have 125 pencils and you have
`y` amount of containers, then you want to get an equal number of pencils in each container.

What operation do we know of that finds an equal distribution across a certain number of groups? Division! That can help us equally split a number into how many parts we need.

Division can be represented in two ways: with a division sign
`/` or as a fraction
`(x)/(y)`.

You'll find the that the division sign will be used a lot less during Algebra and you'll mainly stick to fractions.

If we are dividing 125 into
`y` groups, then our fraction is
`(125)/(y)`.

Hope this helped!