Question

There are 23 pastries. They need to be shared equally between 7 people. How many pastries does each person get? Write your answer as a mixed number.

Remember, your remainder becomes the fraction.

Answer 1

3
`(2)/(7)` pastries

Explanation:

Amount to be shared / number of people sharing

23 / 7

To simplify easily in our heads, we can take 23 and subtract 7. That then becomes a 1. Subtract 7 again, it becomes a 2. We can do this until we have taken all of the wholes (equivalent to 1) out of 23/7. The math for this is shown below.

`(23)/(7) =(7 +7 +7+2)/(7) =3(2)/(7)`

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