Mandy has collected 4 times as many seashells as Jackson. Mandy has 36 shells. How many seashells does Jackson have?
1/4 * 36 = ?
To find out how many seashells Jackson has, we first need to determine how many seashells Mandy has per shell that Jackson has. We know that Mandy has 4 times as many seashells as Jackson, so we can set up an equation:
Mandy's seashells = 4 * Jackson's seashells
We are also given that Mandy has 36 seashells, so we can substitute that value into the equation:
36 = 4 * Jackson's seashells
To find the value of Jackson's seashells, we can divide both sides of the equation by 4:
36/4 = Jackson's seashells
This simplifies to:
9 = Jackson's seashells
Therefore, Jackson has 9 seashells.