Question

jonathan and his two friends want to share 2 1/2 pounds of gum ball. If they share the gum ball evenly, how many pounds of gum balls will each of them get.

Answer 1

2 1/2 divided by 2 equals 1 1/4 So each person would get 1 whole pound of gumballs with 1/4 of an other pound

Answer 2

Given that "Jonathan and his two friends want to share 2 1/2 pounds of gum ball. If they share the gum ball evenly"

"Jonathan and his two friends" means there are total 3 persons in which we have to distribute gum ball.

Since we have to share gum ball evenly so that means we need to divide 2 1/2 pound by 3

so let's divide that.

`(2 (1)/(2))/(3)= ((2*2+1)/(2))/(3)= ((4+1)/(2))/(3)= ((5)/(2))/(3)=(5)/(2)*(1)/(3)=(5*1)/(2*3)=(5)/(6)`

Hence each of them will get
`(5)/(6)` pounds of the gum ball.