Asked by Ea
Amelia baked some cookies. She was able to give five cookies each to 8 friends without having any cookies leftover. How could you set out this problem as an algebraic equation to find out how many cookies are merely have baked in total?
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GPT 3.5
Let x be the number of cookies Amelia baked in total.
Since Amelia gave five cookies to each of her 8 friends, the total number of cookies given to her friends is 5 * 8 = <<5*8=40>>40.
Therefore, the equation that represents the situation is x = 40.
Since Amelia gave five cookies to each of her 8 friends, the total number of cookies given to her friends is 5 * 8 = <<5*8=40>>40.
Therefore, the equation that represents the situation is x = 40.
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