Half of a pizza was split evenly among 5 adults, two of whom split their share of the pizza into thirds with their children. What fraction of the pizza did the pizza did each of the children get?
What is 1/3 of 1/5 ?
isn't that just 1/15 ??
To determine what fraction of the pizza each child received, we first need to calculate the fraction of the pizza that each adult received.
Half of the pizza was split evenly among 5 adults. This means each adult received 1/5 of the pizza, as we are dividing the half pizza among 5 people.
Now, two of the adults split their share of the pizza into thirds with their children. This means the share each adult received (1/5 of the pizza) is divided equally among 3 parts - the adult and their two children.
To find out the fraction that the children received, we divide the share of the adult into thirds. Since each adult received 1/5 of the pizza, and it is divided equally into 3 parts, each part will be (1/5) * (1/3) = 1/15 of the total pizza.
Therefore, each child received 1/15 of the pizza.