jodys has a rectangular piece of fabric 7/8 yard long and 4/5 yard wide.

a)what is the area of the pieces of fabric?(I already did this one)
b) jody decides to share the piece of fabric equally with her friend. what is the area of fabric each person gets?(didn't do this one)

To find the area of the fabric, you multiply the length by the width.

a) The length of the fabric is 7/8 yard, and the width is 4/5 yard.

To multiply two fractions, you simply multiply the numerators (top numbers) together, and the denominators (bottom numbers) together.

So the area of the fabric is (7/8) * (4/5) = (7 * 4) / (8 * 5) = 28/40.

To simplify the fraction, divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 4.

28 divided by 4 is 7, and 40 divided by 4 is 10.
So the simplified fraction is 7/10.

Therefore, the area of the fabric is 7/10 square yards.

b) If Jody decides to share the fabric equally with her friend, they would each receive an equal portion of the total area of the fabric.

Since they are sharing equally, you would need to divide the total area by 2.

So, to find the area of fabric that each person gets, you divide the total area by 2:

(7/10) / 2 = (7/10) * (1/2)
To multiply fractions, you simply multiply the numerators and denominators together.

So, (7/10) * (1/2) = (7 * 1) / (10 * 2) = 7/20.

Therefore, each person would get 7/20 square yards of fabric.

so its 7/10

divded by 2

if you did (a) then (b) is easy. Divide the answer in (a) by 2.