Three friends go to their favorite seafood restaurant for dinner. They decide to order a crab cake appetizer. When it arrives there are only 2 crab cakes.
What fraction of a crab cake will each friend get to eat?
3/2
Write the fraction as a decimal rounded to 2 decimal places.
1.5
well, let's see.
There are more people than crab cakes.
How can each person get more than 1 cake?
In things like this, it's often useful to keep the units around, so you know how to do the divisions.
You want to know cakes per person
That is, cake/person, so the division is
2cake/3person = 2/3 cake/person
2/3 = 0.67
To find the fraction of a crab cake that each friend will get to eat, you need to divide the total number of crab cakes by the number of friends. In this case, there are 2 crab cakes and 3 friends.
To convert this fraction to a decimal, divide the numerator (2) by the denominator (3).
2 รท 3 = 0.666666666....
To round this decimal to 2 decimal places, you can either round up or down. In this case, the next digit after the second decimal place is a 6, which is greater than 5. Therefore, you should round up.
So, the fraction of a crab cake that each friend will get to eat is approximately 0.67 when rounded to 2 decimal places.