As a special end-of-year treat, Kyle is making chocolate-covered strawberries for his teachers. If he dips s strawberries in chocolate, each teacher will get 4s chocolate-covered strawberries. Last night, Kyle dipped 16 strawberries in chocolate.How many chocolate-covered strawberries will each teacher get?Write your answer as a whole number or decimal.____ chocolate-covered strawberries
Q. As a special end-of-year treat, Kyle is making chocolate-covered strawberries for his teachers. If he dips s strawberries in chocolate, each teacher will get 4s chocolate-covered strawberries. Last night, Kyle dipped 16 strawberries in chocolate.How many chocolate-covered strawberries will each teacher get?Write your answer as a whole number or decimal.____ chocolate-covered strawberries
Calculate strawberries per teacher: First, we know Kyle dipped 16 strawberries in chocolate. The problem states each teacher gets 4s of these strawberries, where s is the total number of strawberries dipped.
Substitute and solve: Substitute s with 16 in the expression 4s to find out how many strawberries each teacher gets. 416=4.
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