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Mrs. Ellis has 4 children. She is going to feed them leftover pizza for dinner. If she has 2/3 of pizza left, how much pizza will each child get?



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If Mrs Ellis has 2/3 of a pizza left, this is the same as saying she has 4/6 of a pizza, this is because we can multiply both the top and bottom of the fraction by 2, and the fraction remains equal.

4/6 of a pizza left divided by the 4 children to feed, means we can divide the fraction by 4 to get how much each child gets, we can divide the top of the fraction by 4 to get 1/6. This means each child gets 1/6 of a pizza.
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