Six students equally share 1/2 of a pan of brownies. What fraction of the whole pan does each student eat?
According to the question, we get
1/2÷6/1
=1/2×1/6
=1/12
The fraction each will get is 1/12 of the brownie
To find out what fraction of the whole pan each student eats, you need to divide the amount of brownies shared among the students by the total amount of brownies in the pan.
In this case, there are 6 students and they are sharing 1/2 of a pan of brownies. To determine the fraction each student eats, you divide the amount shared by the number of students.
So, 1/2 divided by 6 equals:
(1/2) ÷ 6
To divide fractions, you need to multiply the dividend (1/2) by the reciprocal of the divisor (6/1):
(1/2) × (1/6)
Multiplying the numerators gives 1, and multiplying the denominators gives 2 × 6 = 12. So, the fraction each student eats is 1/12.
Therefore, each student eats 1/12 of the whole pan of brownies.
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1/2 ÷ 6
= (1/2)(1/6)
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