Question

a art teacher has a box of markers she keeps half the markers in the box and gives a third of half to group a an art teacher has a box of markers she keeps half of the markers in the box and gives 1/3 of the markers to group pay the remaining markers were shared equally among 8 students in group b what fraction of the whole box does each student get in group b

Answer 1

An art teacher has a box of markers.

She keeps half of the markers in the box and gives 1/3 of the other half to group A.

Group A gets,

`group\: A=(1)/(3)*(1)/(2)=(1)/(6)`

So, group A gets 1/6 markers.

The remaining markers were shared equally among 8 students in group B.

Remaining markers means

`\begin{gathered} (1)/(2)+(1)/(6)=(2)/(3) \\ remaing\: markers=1-(2)/(3)=(1)/(3) \end{gathered}`

So, group B gets

`\text{Group B=}(1)/(3)*(1)/(8)=(1)/(24)`

Therefore, each student of group B gets 1/24 of the whole box