Answer:
[tex]\frac{125}{y}[/tex]
Step-by-step explanation:
If you have 125 pencils and you have [tex]y[/tex] amount of containers, then you want to get an equal number of pencils in each container.
What operation do we know of that finds an equal distribution across a certain number of groups? Division! That can help us equally split a number into how many parts we need.
Division can be represented in two ways: with a division sign [tex]\div[/tex] or as a fraction [tex]\frac{x}{y}[/tex].
You'll find the that the division sign will be used a lot less during Algebra and you'll mainly stick to fractions.
If we are dividing 125 into [tex]y[/tex] groups, then our fraction is [tex]\frac{125}{y}[/tex].
Hope this helped!
