A certain number of children shared 42 sweets,each child got 8 sweet how many children shared the sweet?
Unless there is a typo,
42/8 = 5 with 2 sweets left over.
42/8 = _______ children
Be careful! You can't have a fraction of a child.
To find the number of children who shared the sweets, we can divide the total number of sweets by the number of sweets each child received.
The total number of sweets is given as 42, and each child received 8 sweets.
To calculate the number of children, we divide the total number of sweets by the number of sweets each child received:
Number of children = Total number of sweets ÷ Number of sweets each child received
Number of children = 42 ÷ 8
Using division, we find that the number of children who shared the sweets is 5.
Therefore, 5 children shared the sweets.