Math  /  Numbers & Operations

QuestionThere are 12 students in the gym class. If 4 students can sit on 1 bench, how many benches are needed for all the students? 12÷4=312 \div 4=3 12×4=4812 \times 4=48 124=812-4=8 12+4=1612+4=16

Studdy Solution

STEP 1

What is this asking? How many benches do we need to seat **12** students if each bench holds **4** students? Watch out! Don't mix up multiplication and division!
We need enough benches, so we shouldn't end up with *more* benches than students!

STEP 2

1. Find the number of benches.

STEP 3

We have **12** students and each bench holds **4** students.
We want to figure out how many groups of **4** students fit into **12** students.
This is a division problem!

STEP 4

We divide the **total number of students** by the **number of students per bench**: 12 students4 students/bench \frac{12 \text{ students}}{4 \text{ students/bench}}

STEP 5

124=4341=4431=13=3 \frac{12}{4} = \frac{4 \cdot 3}{4 \cdot 1} = \frac{4}{4} \cdot \frac{3}{1} = 1 \cdot 3 = 3 So, we need **3** benches.
We divided to one, so the units are benches.

STEP 6

We need **3** benches for all the students.

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