Given :
Suppose there are 1200 pencils in 30 jars with an equal number of pencils per jar.
To Find :
Expression to show how to find the number of pencils per jar.
Solution :
Let, number of pencil per jar is x.
We know that when objects are equally distributed we should use divide to get our desired answer.
[tex]x = \dfrac{1200}{30}\\\\x = 40[/tex]
Therefore, number of pencil per jar is 40.