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Question To solve 6÷1/4, James thinks about how the distance from his home to the store is 1/4 mile and he wonders how many times he would have to walk that distance to walk 6 miles. What is the quotient of 6 and 1/4?

Answer 1

Explanation:

James is thinking of 6 miles as the total distance and 1/4 mile as one part of that distance. To find out how many parts of 1/4 mile he would have to walk to cover 6 miles, he needs to divide 6 by 1/4.

To perform this division, we need to remember that dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal.

The reciprocal of 1/4 is 4, so to divide 6 by 1/4, we multiply 6 by 4:

6 * 4 = 24

So, the quotient of 6 and 1/4 is 24.