John cut an apple pie into 6 equal slices. His friends ate some of the pie and now 3/5 is left. John wants to put each slice of the leftover pie on its own plate. What part of the pie will he put on each plate?
Unless you have a typo, someone did not eat a whole slice.
3/5 * 6 = 3.6
To find out what part of the pie John will put on each plate, we need to divide the remaining pie equally among the 6 plates.
First, let's visualize the problem. Initially, John had a whole pie, and he cut it into 6 equal slices. Now, only 3/5 or 3 out of 5 parts of the pie are left.
To divide the remaining pie into 6 equal parts, we can follow these steps:
1. Multiply the number of slices (6) by the fraction representing the remaining pie. We'll multiply 6 by 3/5:
6 * 3/5 = 18/5
2. Simplify the fraction if necessary:
18/5 cannot be simplified, so it remains as 18/5.
3. Divide the remaining pie (18/5) equally among the 6 plates. To do this, we divide the fraction representing the remaining pie by the number of plates:
(18/5) / 6 = (18/5) * (1/6) = 18/30
So, John will put 18/30 parts of the pie on each plate.