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Jaime's family is eating leftover pizza for dinner. There are 1/3 of the pizza left over. If 6 people are eating, and they all received the same amount of pizza, what fractional amount of the whole pizza did each person receive?

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What you need to do is 1/3 divided by 6 and for that you put a 1 on top of the six and multiply it should look like this: 1/3 X 1/6 (which is the same thing as doing 3×6)
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Answer: 1/18

Split the pie into thirds. Then split the third that is being observed into six pieces. Given that the other 2/3 can hold 12 slices, each person would have 1/18.
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