Mai had 5 candy bars she ate half of one candy bar and dicided to distribute the remaining bars between her two sisters and her

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self how many candy bars did each girl reicive

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gogolik [260] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-01T06:28:44+03:00

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So there are five candy bars.

Herself and two sisters equals 3 people in total.

This is a graph of 5 candy bars, each line being 1/2.

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If she ate half of one... the graph would become this.

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Now there are 9 halves. You need to split the 9 halves for 3 people. 9 divided by 3 is 3.

Each person gets 3 halves, or 1 and 1 half.

Mai: ━ ━ ━

Sister 1: ━ ━ ━

Sister 2: ━ ━ ━

Altogether that is 9 halves, AKA the number of halves Mai had after she ate 1/2.

The amount Mai ate in the first place: ━

9 halves plus 1 half, equals 10 halves. Each whole has 2 halves. 10 divided by 2 is 5, AKA the number of candy bars she had in the first place.

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