You have 2one-half bottles of water to divide evenly among 4 people. How much water will each person get?
A. one-half bottles
B. start fraction 5 over 8 end fraction bottles
C. three-fourths bottles
D. eight-fifths bottles
B. Start fraction 5 over 8 end fraction bottles.
Two and a half bottles of water can also be written as 5/2. To divide this evenly among 4 people, we need to divide 5/2 by 4.
Therefore, each person will get:
5/2 รท 4 = (5/2) x (1/4) = 5/8 = Start fraction 5 over 8 end fraction of a bottle.