If you had 5 pieces of licorice to share equally among 7 people, how much licorice would each person get? Show a diagram of how you would cut the licorice for each person?
5/7= .71 draw five pies....each person will receive a little bit over 1/2 of a whole pie
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Draw the 5 pieces of licorice. Divide each piece into sevenths. That will give you 35 pieces. How many pieces will each person get?
If you had 12 pieces of licorice to share equally among 5 people,how much licorice would each person get?
To find out how much licorice each person would get, you need to divide the total amount of licorice (5 pieces) by the total number of people (7).
To illustrate this, imagine that each piece of licorice is represented by a rectangular shape. So, let's draw a 5-unit long rectangle to represent the total amount of licorice.
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Now, divide this rectangle into 7 equal parts to represent the 7 people.
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Each of the 7 equal parts represents the licorice that each person would get. Since there are 5 pieces of licorice, they would each get approximately 0.714 pieces of licorice.
However, keep in mind that licorice cannot be divided exactly into pieces smaller than a whole piece. So, in practice, the amount each person would get might not be exactly 0.714 pieces.