Question

Some chocolate bars are scored (split apart) into equal parts to make them easy to break apart and share. Simon wants to share five chocolate bars equally among four people. The chocolate bars are scored in four equal parts. How should Simon share all the chocolate bars so four people each have an equal share? Show all your mathematical thinking.

Answer 1

If every bar is scored into 4 parts, then Simon has 5*4 parts in total = 20 parts.

To split them between 4 people, each person gets 20/4 parts - 5 parts in total. The way to realize this the easiest would be to give each person a single bar, and then split the last bar into 4 parts and give each person one of them.