To find out how many cupcakes each friend gets, we need to use division. Omar baked a total of 72 cupcakes and he wants to share them equally with 12 friends.
The expression we can use is:
72 ÷ 12
This means we take the total number of cupcakes (72) and divide it by the number of friends (12) to find out how many cupcakes each friend will receive.
Now, let’s do the math:
When we divide 72 by 12, we can think of it like this:
- If we group the 72 cupcakes into 12 equal parts, how many do we have in each part?
If you calculate 72 ÷ 12, you get 6.
So, each of Omar's friends will receive 6 cupcakes.
In summary, to determine how many cupcakes each friend receives, we use the expression 72 ÷ 12 = 6.