Maya has 5 sheets of paper. She cuts each sheet into 3 equal sized rectangles. The rectangles are shared equally among 6 students. How many rectangles does each student get?
ok so 5x3=15 so there is 6 students so you would do 15 divided by 6.
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To find out how many rectangles each student gets, we need to determine the total number of rectangles and divide it by the number of students.
First, let's calculate the total number of rectangles:
Maya has 5 sheets of paper, and she cuts each sheet into 3 equal-sized rectangles. So, the total number of rectangles will be 5 sheets x 3 rectangles per sheet = 15 rectangles.
Next, we divide the total number of rectangles by the number of students:
15 rectangles ÷ 6 students = 2.5 rectangles per student.
But since we can't divide a rectangle into halves for equal sharing, each student will get the maximum whole number of rectangles they can have. In this case, each student will receive 2 rectangles.
Therefore, each student will get 2 rectangles.