Jenna baked apple pies for a family reunion. Each pie was cut into 9 pieces. Her family ate 28 pieces of pie. Write the number of pies Jenna's family ate as an improper fraction and as a mixed number.
28/9 = ...
To determine the number of pies Jenna's family ate, we need to divide the total number of pie pieces consumed by the number of pieces in each pie.
Jenna baked apple pies that were cut into 9 pieces each. We are given that her family ate 28 pieces, so we can divide 28 by 9 to find the number of pies consumed.
28 ÷ 9 = 3 with a remainder of 1
This means that Jenna's family ate 3 whole pies and there is 1 leftover piece.
To express this as an improper fraction, we take the leftover piece and write it as a fraction over the total number of divisions (pieces in each pie):
1/9
Therefore, Jenna's family ate 3 1/9 pies, which can also be expressed as the improper fraction 28/9.