four friends shared 1/2 of one carton of orange juice. what fraction of each carton of juice did each friend get?
Four friends shared 12 of one carton of orange juice and 14 of another carton of apple juice.
What fraction of each carton of juice did each friend get?
1/2 * 1/4 = ___
1/2÷4=1/2×1/4=1/8. Each friend got 1/8 carton of orange juice.
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To find out what fraction of the carton of juice each friend gets, we need to divide the total quantity of juice by the number of friends sharing it.
In this case, four friends are sharing 1/2 of a carton of orange juice. To calculate the fraction for each friend, we divide 1/2 by 4.
First, let's convert the fraction 1/2 into a decimal. To do this, we divide the numerator (1) by the denominator (2):
1 ÷ 2 = 0.5
Now, we divide 0.5 (the decimal equivalent of 1/2) by 4 (the number of friends):
0.5 ÷ 4 = 0.125
Therefore, each friend receives 0.125 of the carton of juice.
To express this as a fraction, we can convert the decimal 0.125 into a fraction. Since it is a three-digit decimal, the denominator of the fraction will be 1000. To find the numerator, we use the decimal value:
0.125 = 125/1000
So, each friend receives 125/1000 of the carton of juice.