Question

Dario has 1 foot of gum. It is cut into 4 equal pieces, or quarters. Dario wants to share these 4 pieces equally among himself and 4 friends (5 people in total). Write and solve the equation for sharing the 1/4 piece of gum equally with 5 people. Please explain and show the work pls help I want to get 100% on this answer pls!

Answer 1

Answer:

Each person will have the amount of 4/20 ft piece of gum equivalent to 1/5 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

For sharing the 1/4 piece of gum equally with 5 people, first divide each piece of 1/4 by 5

so

$\frac{(1/4)}{5}=\frac{1}{20}\ ft$

At this moment we have 20 pieces and each one is 1/20 ft

The number of pieces that corresponds to each person is 20 divided by 5.

so

$20/5=4$      

$4*\frac{1}{20}=\frac{4}{20}\ ft$

each person will have the amount of 4/20 ft piece of gum

simplify

$\frac{4}{20}=\frac{1}{5}\ ft$