How could you model 5 students sharing 4 bags of popcorn equally? How much will each student get?
4/5 of a bag. You will need another bag to share the contents from the other 4 bags.
my answer is 2
4/5?
To model 5 students sharing 4 bags of popcorn equally, you can use division. Here's how you can solve it step by step:
1. Start with the number of bags of popcorn, which is 4.
2. Divide the number of bags by the number of students, so 4 ÷ 5.
3. When you divide 4 by 5, you get a quotient of 0.8.
4. Since it's not possible to distribute 0.8 bags of popcorn evenly, we need to find a different approach.
5. You can round down the quotient to the nearest whole number, which means each student will get 0 bags of popcorn.
6. Alternatively, you can round up the quotient to the nearest whole number, which means one student will get an extra bag while the other four students will get one bag each.
7. Another option is to distribute the bags of popcorn fairly by dividing them as evenly as possible. In this case, each student would get 4 ÷ 5 = 0.8 bags of popcorn.
Based on these approaches, the possible outcomes for each student would be:
- 0 bags if you round down the quotient.
- 1 bag each for four students and 2 bags for one student if you round up the quotient.
- Approximately 0.8 bags each if you divide the bags as evenly as possible.