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?

Question

c-5=8
c+8=5
c divided by 8=5
c times 8 =5

Answer 1

Let's let "c" represent the total number of cookies Amelia baked.

Each friend received 5 cookies, and she gave these cookies to 8 friends. Therefore, the total number of cookies given to friends is 5 multiplied by 8, which is 40 cookies.

Since Amelia gave all the cookies she baked to her friends without any leftovers, the total number of cookies baked (c) is equal to the cookies given to friends, which is 40.

So, the algebraic equation to represent this problem is: c = 40.