Question

There will be 666 people at ellie's pie party. She wants to bake enough pie so that each person can eat at least \dfrac15 5 1 %e2%80%8b start fraction, 1, divided by, 5, end fraction of a pie. What is the minimum number of pies ellie should bake?

Answer 1

Answer: 2 pies

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There will be 6 people at Ellie's pie party. She wants to bake enough pie so that each person can eat at least ​1/5 of a pie.What is the minimum number of pies Ellie should bake?

Since each person can eat at least 1/5 of the pie and there are 6 people, the 6 people would them eat at least (6 × 1/5) = 6/5 pie. Since we are talking about whole numbers with regards to the pie, it simply means that at least 2 pies should be baked.