The pizza restuarant has a special off today: 3 pizzas for $25. The soccer team is ordering pizza, if each player eats 1/4 pizza, how many players will 3 pizzas serve?
3 / (1/4) = 3 * 4 = ?
12
To determine the number of players that 3 pizzas will serve, we first need to find out how many quarters are in 3 pizzas.
Since each player eats 1/4 pizza, we need to divide 3 by 1/4. To divide a whole number by a fraction, we can multiply the whole number by the reciprocal of the fraction.
Reciprocal of 1/4 is 4/1 (or simply 4)
So, we have: 3 pizzas * (1/4) = 3 * (1/4) = 3 * (4/1)
To multiply fractions, we multiply the numerators (top numbers) together and the denominators (bottom numbers) together.
Therefore, 3 * (4/1) = (3 * 4) / 1 = 12 / 1 = 12
Hence, 3 pizzas will serve 12 players.