When you divide a whole number by a decimal less than 1, the quotient is greater than the whole number. Why?

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1 can be interpreted as a "whole" thing, and smaller than 1 is a part of a thing.

imagine: if you have some cakes and you count the number of cake pieces, those will be more than the number of cakes: as each cake will have more than one piece! (otherwise it wouldn't be called a piece!)

so the result of a division by a fraction is bigger than the original number, there are more parts than wholes in the results, as each whole has multiple parts!

for example: divide 3 cakes into pieces which are 1/4th of a cake. how many such pieces would there be? 12! more than the 3 original cakes;

is this possible to understand? tell me if not!

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A group of friends went to the movies. Movie tickets cost $8.50 each. One of the group bought some food for $6.50. The group spe

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Equation: $8.5t+6.5=57.5$

Solution: $t=6$

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