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.
a: 16 + c
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4
b: 4(16 + c)
c: c - 16
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4
d: 16c
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4
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To find the expression that represents the unknown number of customers each teller will serve, we need to translate the given information into mathematical terms.
We know that there are four tellers who divide the customers evenly, and they have already served 16 customers. Let c represent the additional number of customers.
Since the number of customers is evenly divided among the four tellers, we divide the total number of customers (16 + c) by the number of tellers (4). Therefore, the expression that represents the unknown number of customers each teller will serve is:
a: (16 + c) / 4