You want to share
1/4
of a box of cookies with your friends. How many groups of 1/16
of the box can you make out of the
1/4 box?
To find out how many groups of 1/16 of the box can be made out of 1/4 of the box, we need to divide 1/4 by 1/16.
To divide fractions, we can multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
Reciprocal of 1/16 is 16/1, so we can multiply 1/4 by 16/1.
(1/4) * (16/1) = 16/4 = 4
Therefore, we can make 4 groups of 1/16 of the box out of 1/4 of the box.