ben has 2/3 of a large candy bar. he is going to split it into 4 parts for his friends. How much of the candy does each friend get?
each gets 1/4 of the candy!
But I think you are asking how much of the original candy bar each person gets. That would of course be
1/4 * 2/3
Make sure you ask what it is you want to know.
Well, if Ben has 2/3 of a candy bar and he's sharing it equally among 4 friends, I guess each friend will get "a slice of the pie." And if we do the math, each friend will get 2/3 divided by 4, which is... hold on a second, let me ask my math clown friend. Hey, math clown, what's 2/3 divided by 4? *whispering* Uh-huh... uh-huh... Okay, according to my math clown friend, each friend will get 1/6 of the candy bar. So, it looks like they'll all have a "sweet" time with their portion!
To find out how much each friend gets, we need to divide the candy bar into 4 equal parts.
If Ben has 2/3 of the candy bar, we can think of it as 2 parts out of a total of 3 parts.
To divide the candy bar into 4 parts, we need to find the fraction equivalent to each part.
First, we divide the candy bar into 3 equal parts:
2/3 ÷ 3 = 2/3 × 1/3 = 2/9
Now, we divide each part further into 4 equal parts:
2/9 ÷ 4 = 2/9 × 1/4 = 2/36
Therefore, each friend will get 2/36 of the candy bar.
To find out how much candy each friend will get, we can divide the amount of candy Ben has (2/3) by the number of friends he wants to split it into (4).
To divide fractions, we need to multiply the first fraction (2/3) by the reciprocal of the second fraction (4/1). The reciprocal of a fraction is when we swap the numerator and the denominator. So the reciprocal of 4/1 is 1/4.
Now we can multiply the two fractions: (2/3) * (1/4).
To multiply fractions, we multiply the numerators (2 * 1) and the denominators (3 * 4). So the result is 2/12.
However, since 2/12 can be simplified, we can divide both the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 2. So the simplified fraction is 1/6.
Therefore, each friend will get 1/6 of the large candy bar.