At a party each person is to be served 1/4 of a pizza. how many people can be served from 8 pizzas?
If each person gets 1/4 pizza, one pizza serves 4 people. Eight pizzas would serve 8 times that many.
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To find out how many people can be served from 8 pizzas, we need to divide the total number of pizzas by the fraction of a pizza that each person is served.
In this case, each person is served 1/4 of a pizza. So, we need to divide the 8 pizzas by 1/4.
To divide by a fraction, we can use the concept of reciprocal fractions. The reciprocal of 1/4 is 4/1. So, we can rewrite the division as multiplication by the reciprocal: 8 x 4/1.
Multiplying 8 by 4 gives us 32, and dividing by 1 leaves us with the same value. Therefore, using 8 pizzas at the party, 32 people can be served.