Question

Hank had 4 1/2 pounds of fish. He needed to split it up equally into 34 pound portions for his friends. How many friends will he be able to share it with?

Answer 1

Problem

Hank had 4 1/2 pounds of fish. He needed to split it up equally into 34 pound portions for his friends. How many friends will he be able to share it with?​

Solution

For this case we can do the following:

`4(1)/(2)=(4\cdot2+1)/(2)=(9)/(2)`

and we can divide this number by 34 and we got:

`(9)/(2)\cdot(1)/(34)=(9)/(68)`

So then to each friend correspond 9/68 pounds of fish