Ruby buys 20 cupcakes. She divides them between 5 children. How many cupcakes would each child get? A shop had 40 sausage rolls on sale. If 10 people bought them all and share equally, how many sausage rolls did each person buy?
Answer (1)
To solve the problems, we need to divide the total number of items (cupcakes and sausage rolls) by the number of people sharing them.
Ruby and the Cupcakes: Ruby buys 20 cupcakes and wants to divide them between 5 children. To find out how many cupcakes each child gets, we divide the total number of cupcakes by the number of children:
Number of cupcakes each child gets = 5 20 = 4
So, each child would get 4 cupcakes.
Sausage Rolls at the Shop: The shop has 40 sausage rolls, and they are bought and shared equally by 10 people. To determine how many sausage rolls each person gets, we divide the total number of sausage rolls by the number of people:
Number of sausage rolls each person gets = 10 40 = 4
Therefore, each person would buy 4 sausage rolls.
Both of these problems demonstrate a basic division scenario where a total number of items is evenly distributed among a group of people. This application of division helps us find how much each person in the group would get when items are shared equally.
