Answer:
Six friends ate in a restaurant together and split the total cost c equally. Each person paid less than $8, the statement that best describes it is:
[tex]\frac{c}{6}<8\rightarrow(1)[/tex]Therefore (1) points to the first option, which is the answer, and rearranging (1) gives the following:
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{c}{6}\lt8\operatorname{\rightarrow}c<48 \\ \\ c<48\rightarrow(2) \end{gathered}[/tex]The inequality (2) implies that the total cost of the food is less than $48.