Question

Alicia has 32 stickers. This is 4 times as many stickers as Benita has. How many stickers does Benita have?

Answer 1

Hint: Here we have to find the number of stickers Benita has. We know that Alicia has 32 stickers, which is four times the stickers Benita has. Here we can come to know that the number multiplied by four to get the value of 32, that is the number of stickers Benita has is the number multiplied to 4 to get the value of 32.

Complete step by step answer:
We know that the number of stickers Alicia has is 32.
We have to find the number of stickers Benita has.
We also know that Alicia has 32 stickers, which is four times as Benita has.
We can assume that x be the number of stickers Benita has.
Now we can multiply the x with 4 to get the value of 32, as Alicia’s count is 4 times as many stickers as Benita's.
\[\Rightarrow 4\times x=32\]
In the above step, we can divide by 4 on both sides to get the value of x.
\[\begin{align}
  & \Rightarrow \dfrac{4x}{4}=\dfrac{32}{4} \\
 & \Rightarrow x=8 \\
\end{align}\]
The value x is 8.
Therefore, Benita has 8 stickers.

Note:
 Students make mistakes in the multiplication part, which should be strongly concentrated. Students should know multiplication tables to solve these types of problems. Students may also do these types of calculations in mind in shortcuts, such as 8 is 4 times to get the value of 32.