Question

How could you model 5 students sharing 4 bags of popcorn equally? How much will each student get?

Answer 1

Your answer is 0.8 or 80%
Explanation:

Consider the ratio written like a fraction:

Count of sandwichescount of people→46

But we need the count of sandwiches for 1 person. So we need to change the 6 people into 1 person. To change 6 into 1 divide it by 6

6÷6=1

For ratios, when multiplying or dividing, what we do to the bottomwe do to the top.

So to change 46 into what we want we apply

4÷66÷6=231← Count of sandwichescount of people

So each person ends up with 23 of a sandwich

Now see where the shortcut comes from 46=23 of a sandwich