Question

Kevin and some friends baked different loaves of bread and cut them into different numbers of slices. They ate 1/4 of one loaf, 1/4 of another, 5/12 of another, and 1/12 of another. Did they eat the equivalent of a whole bread

Answer 1

The first thing you should do to answer the question is to take each of the amounts to percentages:
(1/4) * (100) = 25
(1/4) * (100) = 25
(5/12) * (100) = 41.67
(1/12) * (100) = 8.33
Adding all the amounts:
25 + 25 + 41.67 + 8.33 = 100%
answer
Yes, they ate the equivalent of a whole bread