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?
A group of 3 friends has a bag of 14 sweets. They want to divide the sweets equally between them
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To solve the problem, we’ll divide the total number of sweets by the number of friends.
a) To find out how many sweets each friend would receive, we divide the total sweets (14) by the number of friends (3):
[ 14 div 3 = 4 ]
Each friend would receive 4 sweets.
b) To find out how many sweets would be left over, we calculate the remainder of this division:
[ 14 – (3 times 4) = 14 – 12 = 2 ]
So, there would be 2 sweets left over.
In summary:
– Each friend receives 4 sweets.
– 2 sweets are left over.