Question

Carlos owns a rare stamp collection. There are 45 rare stamps in his collection. He wants to divide the stamps among his three children. He requested that the oldest child receives 4/5 of the collection, the middle child receives 1/10 of the collection and the youngest child receives 1/15 of the collection. His children met and tried to figure out how to distribute the stamps according to their father’s specification.
What's a better way for carlos should distribute?

Answer 1

He could give each of his children a third of what stamps he owns. So then you would divide 45 by 3 to get how many each child would get.