Question

Nine boys share 4 pizzas equally. What fraction of a pizza does each boy get?

I have specific answers that I have to choose from but I don't know what order to put 9 and 4 in. What order do I put them in for the equation?

Answer 1

9 boys share pizzas equally. a fraction of this statement does boy get so that. for that pizza I eat 4/9 of pizza therfore 4/9 is the answer

Answer 2

4/9

Explanation:

Since the 9 boys share 4 pizzas, which is less than the count of the people eating, it cannot be a number above 1. So this rules out 36 and 9/4. Since 4 is what they are eating, that would be the numerator. So, the number of people is the denominator, so the answer is 4/9.