Mrs. olechnowski has 40 students in her classes. she bought a bag of skittles and would like to give each student the same amount. if each student got 5 skittles, how many skittles were in the bag

For each student to receive 5 skittles each, there would have to be a total of 200 skittles in the bag.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a word problem with just one operation.  Based on the information given, we know that there are 40 students and they each receive 5 skittles.  To find the total, we would either need to add 5 for a total of 40 times, or we can multiply 40 times 5 to get the total number of skittles.  40 x 5=200, a quick check of the problem shows us that 200/40 = 5, which would be 5 skittles per student.