Question

How many groups of 5/6 are in 1

Answer 1

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Answer:

  1 1/5

Step-by-step explanation:

We want to find the number of times (5/6) goes into 1, so we divide ...

  1/(5/6) = 1 × 6/5 = 6/5 = 1 1/5

There are 1 1/5 groups of 5/6 in 1.

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Another way to look at it

You can consider 1 to be divided into 6 equal part:

  o  o  o  o  o  o

We can group these in groups of 5, so each group is 5/6 of the whole:

 (o  o  o  o  o)  o

What we see is that we have 1 group, and 1/5 of another group.

That is, 1 has 1 1/5 groups of 5/6 in it.