The fraction
1/4 is shaded in the diagram below. Divide
1/4 into 2 equal parts. What is the size of each part?
A number line from 0 to 1. Three marks divide the line into 4 equal parts counting by one-fourth. The space from 0 to one-fourth, the first mark, is highlighted. There is a red mark halfway between 0 and one-fourth.
To divide 1/4 into 2 equal parts, we need to find the halfway point between 0 and 1/4 on the number line.
Since the number line is divided into 4 equal parts, each part represents 1/4 of the whole. Therefore, the halfway point between 0 and 1/4 is equal to half of 1/4, which is 1/8.
So, each part is equal to 1/8.