Tina baked a loaf of cinnamon bread and cut it into 15 equal pieces. Four people ate an equal number of pieces left. there are three pieces left. what fraction of the bread to each person eat ?
- The four people eating bread :
15-3 = 12 pieces
- Pieces of bread for each person to eat :
12 divided by 4 = 3 pieces
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To find out the fraction of the bread that each person ate, you need to divide the number of pieces eaten by the total number of pieces.
Given that four people ate an equal number of pieces and there were three pieces left, we can start by subtracting the remaining three pieces from the initial 15 pieces:
15 - 3 = 12
So, there were 12 pieces of bread eaten by the four people.
To find the number of pieces each person ate, we divide the total number of pieces by the number of people:
12 ÷ 4 = 3
Therefore, each person ate 3 pieces of bread.
To represent this as a fraction, we can say that each person ate 3 out of the 15 pieces of bread. This can be written as 3/15.