1. How could you divide 18 cookies among four fhends

To divide 18 cookies among four friends, we can follow these steps: 1. **Determine how many cookies each friend gets**: We need to divide the total number of cookies (18) by the number of friends (4). 2. **Perform the division**: \[ \text{Cookies per friend} = \frac{18}{4} \] 3. **Calculate the result**: \[ \frac{18}{4} = 4.5 \] This means each friend would get 4.5 cookies. 4. **Distributing the cookies**: Since we can't physically divide a cookie in half, we can give each friend 4 cookies, which totals 16 cookies. This leaves us with 2 cookies remaining. 5. **Distributing the remaining cookies**: We can then give the remaining 2 cookies to any 2 of the 4 friends, so that they each get an extra cookie. In summary, each friend gets 4 cookies, and 2 friends get an additional cookie, resulting in the following distribution: - 2 friends receive 5 cookies each. - 2 friends receive 4 cookies each.