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?

Answer 1

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.