Question

1. I have 1/2 of a cake left. I need to divide it equally among 5 people. What fraction of the whole cake would each person get ? Please show your work and write your answer in the simplest form.

Answer 1

1/10 is the answer here!! (If you wanted to convert into decimal or would be 0.1) you would divide 1/2 by 5 thus giving you 0.1 convert to fraction 1/10

Answer 2

Given:

The left over part of a cake is,

`(1)/(2)`

We need to divide it among 5 people.

So, we have,

`\begin{gathered} ((1)/(2))/(5)=(1)/(2)*(1)/(5) \\ =(1)/(10) \end{gathered}`

Hence, the fraction of the whole cake would each person get is,

`(1)/(10)`