Question

Juan sells banana bread by weight. He cuts a 1-lb loaf of banana bread into 6 equal slices. He wants to complete the table showing the total weight for the various numbers of slices. What decimals will he write in the table?

Answer 1

Answer:

0.1$\frac{}{6}$

Step-by-step explanation:

When Juan cut a 1 lb loaf of banana bread into 6 slices, the weight of each slice forms a repeating decimal. A repeating decimal is a decimal number with repeating digit/s.

i.e $\frac{1}{6}$ = 0.166666666666666...

To express the total weight for each slice, he should write a bar over 6 to show that the number repeats.

i.e $\frac{1}{6}$ = 0.1$\frac{}{6}$

Note that $\frac{}{6}$ has expressed that the division has 6 as the repeating digit in the decimal number.