A movie theater ticket booth opens at 10 am. There are four tellers who divide the customers evenly. The tellers have served 16 customers so far this morning. which expression represents the unknown number of customers each teller will serve? Let c represent the additional number off customers.

Question

a: 16 + c OVER 4

b: 4(16 + c)

c: c - 16 OVER 4

d: 16c OVER 4

Answer 1

If c = "additional number off (sic) customers," then each teller will serve "c - 16 OVER 4" [more clearly written (c-16)/4] additional customers.