Question

If 14 people want to share 24 oranges equally, how many oranges will each person get?

Answer 1

Given data:

The total number of oranges is: 24

The total number of people is: 14

The expression to calculate the number of oranges a person has is,

`\begin{gathered} \frac{Total\text{ number of oranges}}{\text{Total number of people}}=(24)/(14) \\ =1+(5)/(7) \\ =1.714\text{ oranges.} \end{gathered}`

Thus, each person gets 1 orange and 5/7 of an orange.