Question

Pierre Hugo is handling the estate of a prominent businesswoman The will states that the surviving spouse is to receive 1/4 of the estate and the 3/4 remaining of the estate will be divided equally among five surviving children What fraction of the estate does each child receive?

Answer 1

Out of the estate, 1/4 goes to the surviving spouse and 3/4 goes to the children, where each one receives an equal share.

As there are 5 children, each will receive 1/5 of the children's part.

Then, we can calculate what one child receives by multiplying the share that goes to the children (3/4) and the part that each child receives from it (1/5):

`s=(3)/(4)\cdot(1)/(5)=(3)/(20)`

Each child receives 3/20 parts of the estate.