Meredith bakes 5 pumpkin pies. She cuts the pies into quarters and distributes the pieces equally among her neighbors. Each neighbor receives 3 4 of a pie. a) How many neighbors does Meredith distribute the pies to?
5 pies means 20 quarters (5*4)
3 quarters per neighbor means 6 neighbors, with two quarters left over
3*6 = 18 ... 18 + 2 = 20
To find out how many neighbors Meredith distributes the pies to, we need to divide the total number of pie pieces by the number of pie pieces each neighbor receives.
Each pumpkin pie is cut into 4 quarters, so 5 pies will have a total of 5 * 4 = 20 pie pieces.
Each neighbor receives 3/4 of a pie, which is equivalent to 3 quarters.
To determine the number of neighbors, we divide the total number of pie pieces (20) by the number of pie pieces each neighbor receives (3):
20 / 3 ≈ 6.67
As we can't have a fraction of a neighbor, we can conclude that Meredith distributes the pies to 6 neighbors.