At Mariah's birthday party, 9 of her friends ate 3/4 of her chocolate cake. How much of the cake did each friend eat?(1 point)
To find out how much each friend ate, you divide the amount of cake eaten by the number of friends.
So, if 9 friends ate 3/4 of the cake, you divide 3/4 by 9.
3/4 ÷ 9 = (3/4) * (1/9) = 3/36 = 1/12.
Therefore, each friend ate 1/12 of the cake.
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Apologies for the mistake in my previous response. Let's correct it:
To find out how much each friend ate, you need to divide the amount of cake eaten (3/4) by the number of friends (9).
To divide fractions, you multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
3/4 ÷ 9 = (3/4) * (1/9) = 3/4 * 1/9 = 3/36 = 1/12.
Therefore, each friend ate 1/12 of the cake.
To find out how much of the chocolate cake each friend ate, you need to divide the total amount of cake consumed by the number of friends.
Since 9 friends ate 3/4 of the cake, we can calculate it like this:
1. Multiply the whole cake by the fraction representing the portion eaten: (1 cake) × (3/4) = 3/4 of a cake.
2. Divide the amount of cake eaten by the number of friends: (3/4 of a cake) ÷ (9 friends).
To simplify the division, we can convert the fraction division into a multiplication by taking the reciprocal of the fraction (flipping the numerator and denominator):
(3/4) ÷ (9 friends) is the same as (3/4) × (1/9).
Now, we multiply the numerators together and the denominators together:
(3 × 1) / (4 × 9) = 3/36.
The simplified fraction shows that each friend ate 3/36 of the cake.