sue and dave shared 1/3 pound of cherries equally. What fractional part of a pound did each get?
Molly wrote the following equation to solve the problem: (2 divided by 1/3)
2/1/3=n. Do you agree with Molly's equation? support your answer with information from the problem.
I would say it is incorrect becauce it should be 1/3 divided by2 (1/3/2=n)
this would get the correct answer of 1/6, where as Molly's equation would give an answer of 6, which would not be correct.
Is this correct? Thanks for your help.
You're right.
thank you!!!
You're welcome.
Yes, you are correct. Molly's equation, (2 divided by 1/3), is not the correct equation to solve the problem. Let's analyze the problem and explain why.
The problem states that Sue and Dave shared 1/3 pound of cherries equally. To find the fractional part of a pound that each of them got, we need to divide 1/3 pound by the number of people, which is 2 in this case (Sue and Dave).
So, the correct equation would be 1/3 divided by 2, which can be written as (1/3)/2 or 1/3/2.
By performing this division, we get the correct answer of 1/6. So, Sue and Dave each got 1/6 of a pound of cherries.
In contrast, Molly's equation, (2 divided by 1/3), would give an incorrect answer of 6. This is because dividing by 1/3 is equivalent to multiplying by the reciprocal of the fraction, which in this case is flipping 1/3 to 3/1. So, Molly's equation actually simplifies to 2 * 3/1, which equals 6.
Therefore, your chosen equation, 1/3 divided by 2 (1/3/2), is the correct equation to solve the problem and obtain the correct answer of 1/6.