Chiang picked 12 apples. She gave 1/6 of the apples to each of her 5 friends. How many apples did each friend get?
1/6 * 12 = 12/6 = 2
To find out how many apples each friend got, we need to divide the total number of apples (12) by the number of friends (5).
First, we divide 12 by 5 to distribute the apples equally:
12 รท 5 = 2 remainder 2
Since we cannot give a remainder of apples to each friend, we need to distribute the remainder evenly.
To do that, we can add one apple to each friend, resulting in:
2 + 1 = 3
Therefore, each friend received 2 apples, and there were 2 remaining apples.