when they arrived at jill's, her mother served them a deli sandwich. she cut the sandwich in to 12 sections. jill and her 8 friends each ate 1 section. how much of the sandwich was left over. answer with 2 equal fractions
To find out how much of the sandwich was left over, we need to subtract the total number of sections eaten from the total number of sections the sandwich was cut into.
The total number of sections the sandwich was cut into is 12 sections.
Jill and her 8 friends each ate 1 section, so the total number of sections eaten is 1 section per person multiplied by 9 people (Jill + 8 friends), which equals 9 sections.
To find out how much of the sandwich was left over, we subtract the total number of sections eaten (9 sections) from the total number of sections the sandwich was cut into (12 sections).
12 sections - 9 sections = 3 sections
Therefore, there were 3 sections of the sandwich left over.
To express this as 2 equal fractions, we can divide the 3 sections into two equal parts.
One option is to split the 3 sections equally into two parts of 1.5 sections each:
1.5 sections / 3 sections = 1/2
Another option is to express the 3 sections as 6 halves:
6 halves / 12 halves = 1/2
Therefore, the amount of the sandwich left over can be expressed as 1/2 or 1/2.