3 neighbors are sharing a rectangular strip of land for a garden. They divide the land into 24 equal sized pieces. What fraction of the land does each person get if they share it equally? Write the answer in more than one way.
3/24 = 1/8
To find the fraction of the land that each person gets, we need to divide the total number of pieces by the number of people sharing the land.
Given that the land is divided into 24 equal-sized pieces and there are 3 people sharing it, we can find the fraction each person gets by dividing 24 by 3.
24 ÷ 3 = 8
Each person will receive 8 of the 24 equal-sized pieces.
To express this fraction in multiple ways, we can write it as:
- 8/24
- 4/12
- 2/6
- 1/3
So, each person will receive 8/24, 4/12, 2/6, or 1/3 of the land, depending on how the fraction is simplified.