Question

Devon buys a plot of land with an area of 5/6 square kilometers. He divides the land equally into 4 smaller plots.What is the total area of 3 of the smaller plots of land? Please work it out for me!

Answer 1

5/6 divide by 4 equals 5/24. So each plot would be 5/24 km squared. Multiply that by 3 and it would be 15/24. So the answer would be 15/24 km squared if im correct.

Answer 2

Total area of the 3 plots will be
`(3)/(8)` square kilometers.

Explanation:

Devon buys a plot of the land with an area =
`(5)/(6)` square kilometers

He divides this land equally into 4 smaller plots.

Therefore, Area of each plot =
`((5)/(6) )/(4)`

=
`(5)/(24)` square kilometers

Now the area of 3 plots = 3 × area of one plot

=
`3* (5)/(24)`

=
`(5)/(8)`

Therefore, total area of the smaller 3 plots will be
`(3)/(8)` square kilometers.