Given:
Tom has a certain number of cookies he wants to give to his three friends so that his three friends will each get three cookies.
Required:
How many cookies does Tom have?
Explanation:
Let no. of cookies is x.
[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{ He has three friends and he wants each to get three cookies.} \\ 3\times3=9 \\ \text{ Total number of cookies equal 9.} \end{gathered}[/tex]Answer:
The number of cookies x = 9.
