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Amelia baked some cookies. She was able to give 5 cookies each to 8 of her Friends without having any left over. How could you set up this problem as and algebraic sentence to find how many cookies she baked in total?
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Let "x" represent the total number of cookies Amelia baked.
Given that she gave away 5 cookies each to 8 friends, the total number of cookies given away is 5 * 8 = 40.
Since she did not have any cookies left over, the algebraic sentence to represent this situation is:
x - 40 = 0
or
x = 40
Given that she gave away 5 cookies each to 8 friends, the total number of cookies given away is 5 * 8 = 40.
Since she did not have any cookies left over, the algebraic sentence to represent this situation is:
x - 40 = 0
or
x = 40
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