Amelia baked some cookies. She was able to give 5 cookies each to 8 friends without having any cookies left over. How could you set up this problem as an algebraic equation to find out how many cookies Amelia baked in total?(1 point)
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c - 5=8
c×8=5
c÷ 8=5
c+8=5
The correct equation would be c = 5 x 8.
Explanation: Let's assign the variable c to represent the total number of cookies Amelia baked. She was able to give 5 cookies each to 8 friends, so the total number of cookies given away is 5 x 8. Therefore, the equation representing this situation is c = 5 x 8.
To set up the problem as an algebraic equation, we need to represent the total number of cookies Amelia baked. Let's use the variable 'c' to represent the total number of cookies.
Since Amelia gave 5 cookies to each of her 8 friends, the total number of cookies given away can be found by multiplying 5 by 8. This gives us the equation:
5 * 8 = c
Simplifying this equation, we have:
40 = c
Therefore, the correct algebraic equation to find out how many cookies Amelia baked in total is:
c = 40
The algebraic equation to find out how many cookies Amelia baked in total is:
c = 8 * 5
where c represents the total number of cookies Amelia baked.