A group of 3 friends has a bag of 14 sweets. They want to divide the sweets equally between them.
a) How many sweets would each friend receive?
b) How many sweets would be left over?
How many sweets would each friend receive and how many would be left over?
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To solve the problem, we can divide the total number of sweets by the number of friends.
a) To find out how many sweets each friend would receive, we perform the division:
14 sweets ÷ 3 friends = 4 sweets per friend.
b) Next, we find out how many sweets are left over. We’ll calculate the remainder of the division:
14 sweets – (4 sweets × 3 friends) = 14 – 12 = 2 sweets left over.
So, each friend would receive 4 sweets, and there would be 2 sweets left over.
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