Question

The strip below is cut into 15 equals shade 1/3

Answer 1

We have several ways to solve this.

We have 15 "things" and we want to take 1/3 of them. This is the same as dividing 15 by 3:

`15÷3=5`

then, a third of the bars is equal to 5 bars. You have to shade 5 bars