Roberto is dividing his baseball cards equally between himself,his brother,and his 5 friends.Roberto was left with 6 cards.How many cards did Roberto give away?Enter and solve a division equation to solve the problem.Use x for the total number of cards.

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Answer 1 · 2018-02-20T18:42:22

#x/7=6#

So Roberto started with #42# cards and gave away #36#.

#x# is the total number of cards. Roberto divided those cards seven ways, ending up with six cards for himself.

#6xx7=42#

So that is the total number of cards. Because he kept #6#, he gave away #36#.