Question

You make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over. You want to divide the leftover salad among 6 friends.

Answer 1

you would have 2/3 left so 2/3 ÷ 6 and that would turn into 2/3 × 6/1 and that would turn into 2/3 × 1/6 which would equal 2/18 which would simplify 1/9

Answer 2

`(1)/(9)` of the salad.

Explanation:

You make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends.

Your brother eats
`(1)/(3)` of it.

Now the leftover salad = 1 -
`(1)/(3)`

=
`(3-1)/(3)`

=
`(2)/(3)`

You want to divide the leftover salad among 6 friends.

`(2)/(3)` ÷ 6

=
`(2)/(3)` ×
`(1)/(6)`

=
`(2)/(18)`

=
`(1)/(9)`

Each friend gets
`(1)/(9)` of the salad.