Question

Jimmy equally distributes 36 cakes among his 9 friends. How many cakes does each friend get?

• A. 45
• B. 27
• C. 4
• D. 9

Answer 1

The correct option is C 4

Division is known as repetitive subtraction.

Let's look at the table below, where 36 cakes are equally divided among 9 friends using repeated subtraction.

$\begin{array}{cc}1.& 36-9=27\\ 2.& 27-9=18\\ 3.& 18-9=9\\ 4.& 9-9=0\end{array}$

9 is subtracted four times from 36 until to get 0.

Therefore,
when 36 cakes are equally divided among Jimmy's 9 friends, each friend got 4 pieces.