There are 13 bagels in a baker's dozen. Hillary, Mark, and Tam share the bagels equally. Will each friend get more than or fewer than 4 whole bagels? Explain.

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Marcel Blackwell

20 March, 10:27

There are 13 bagels in a baker's dozen. Hillary, Mark, and Tam share the bagels equally. Will each friend get more than or fewer than 4 whole bagels? Explain.

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Dominik Lawson · Answer 1

Each friend will get more than 4 whole bagels.

Step-by-step explanation:

First off, although the question asks for 13 bagels divided between 3 friends, let's use a number that results in a whole number when divided by 3, but is close to 13.

This number can be 12.

12 divided by 3 is 4, so each friend gets 4 bagels if there are a total of 12 bagels.

However, there are more than 12 bagels so we know that each of the the 3 friends will get more than 4 bagels each.