Abby baked 48 dinner rolls and divided them evenly into bags. Let b represent the number of bags. Write an algebraic expression to represent the number of dinner rolls in each back
Your expression is, 48/b because you are splitting 48 rolls into bags, which we do not have an exact number as of right now.
I think it is trying to say to write an algebraic expression. So you don't have to have a constant for the number of bags, but a variable.
To represent the number of dinner rolls in each bag, we can divide the total number of dinner rolls by the number of bags.
Let's start by assigning variables:
b = number of bags
r = number of dinner rolls in each bag
Now, we need to find the expression that represents the number of dinner rolls in each bag:
Total dinner rolls = number of bags × number of dinner rolls in each bag
Given that Abby baked 48 dinner rolls and divided them evenly into bags:
48 = b × r
So, the algebraic expression to represent the number of dinner rolls in each bag is b × r = 48.
The factors of 48:
2, 24
3, 16
4, 12
6, 8
I think it might be asking to say that the variable b represents the number of bags.
We don't have enough information to know the number of bags. It could be any of the 8 numbers above.
Check to see if there's more information given in the problem.