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Seth and 5 friends went to San Diego for a summer weekend. Seth made 14 cups of lemonade. Everyone, including, Seth, wants an equal amount of all the lemonade.

How much lemonade should each person get?

User Cassidy
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Theres 6 people and 14 cups
14/6 = 2.333333
So approximately 2 1/3 cups for each person
User Borys Generalov
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Answer:

2 1/3 cups of lemonade

Explanation:

There are 5 friends that we need to split the 14 cups of lemonade to. If we add Seth, that number becomes 6.

So:

  • 14 ÷ 6 or
    (14)/(6)

How can we convert this fraction into a mixed number?

Well in order to do this, we can take the numerator, in our case it is 14, and divide that by its denominator, which is 6.

  • 14 ÷ 6 = 2 remainder
    (2)/(6) or
    2(1)/(3)

This means that each person should get
(7)/(3) or
2(1)/(3) cups of lemonade.

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