Question

You make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over. You want to divide the leftover salmon evenly among 6 friends? What expression describes the situation explain

Answer 1

The expression that describes the situation is:

$\left(\text{Total amount of salad}\right) - \left(\text{Amount eaten by brother}\right) \div \left(\text{Number of friends}\right)$

Explanation:

To find the amount of salad left after your brother eats 1/3, we subtract the amount he ate from the total amount of salad. So, the expression $\left(\text{Total amount of salad}\right) - \left(\text{Amount eaten by brother}\right)$ represents the quantity of salad that you have left.

Then, to divide the remaining salmon evenly among 6 friends, we need to further divide the amount of salad left by the number of friends. Hence, we divide the expression $\left(\text{Total amount of salad}\right) - \left(\text{Amount eaten by brother}\right)$ by the number of friends, which is 6.

Therefore, the expression that describes the situation is $\left(\text{Total amount of salad}\right) - \left(\text{Amount eaten by brother}\right) \div \left(\text{Number of friends}\right)$.