A birthday cake is divided evenly between 8 people.
What fraction of the cake does each person have?
Give your answer in its simplest form.
Each person would have 1/8 of the cake. This fraction is already in its simplest form.
To find out what fraction of the cake each person has, we need to divide the whole cake equally among the 8 people.
To do this, we can represent the whole cake as one whole, which is the same as the fraction 1/1.
Since we are dividing the cake into 8 equal parts, each part will be represented by the fraction 1/8.
So, each person will have 1/8th of the cake.
Therefore, the fraction of the cake that each person has is 1/8.
To find the fraction of the cake that each person has, we need to divide the whole cake into 8 equal parts.
The fraction that represents each person's share is 1/8:
1/8
So, each person will have 1/8th or one-eighth of the cake.