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A scientist is placing 1/5 of the bugs into 3 equal groups for an experiment. What fraction of the entire group of bugs will be in each experimental group?
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A scientist is placing 1/5 of the bugs into 3 equal groups for an experiment. What fraction of the entire group of bugs will be in each experimental group?

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you can reason this concretely.
suppose you start with 60 bugs.
1/5 of the 60 bugs is 12 bugs
divide 12 bugs into 3 equal groups. each group has 12/3 = 4 bugs.
the fraction now is 4/60
in lowest terms this is 1/15


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