Question

A team of runners is needed to run a 1/4 mile relay race if each runner must run 1/16 mile.how many runners will be needed

Answer 1

1/12 because you subtract 4 and 16 and you get 12

Answer 2

How we can more simply put what we need in wording?

Basically, we need to find the equal denominator, and find how many 1/16=1/4.

We can find this simply by dividing. To find 1/4 of 1/16, we need to divide 16 by four.

That answer is 4, so the answer would be 4 runners!

Hope this helps!