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Sarah and four friends are decorating picture frames with ribbon. They have 4 rollsof ribbon to share evenly?

How does this situation represent division?
How much ribbon does each person receive?

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"Sarah and four friends", this means that we have a total of 5 persons.
They have four rolls of ribbon to share evenly.
1- This represents division as they have to equally divide four rolls among them.

2- The share of each can be calculated by dividing the four rolls they have by the five of them as follows:
share of each = 4/5 rolls = 0.8 rolls


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