Question

You are a camp counselor and have 2/3 pound of fishing bait. If you give each

camper 1/6 pound, how many campers receive bait? Before you model and
solve this problem, estimate your answer.
Write a division expression that would represent the situation above.

Answer 1

C = amount of campers

so, if we give each campler 1/6 lb evenly, whatever that sum will just add up to 2/3 lb.

If we have "C" campers, the product of 1/6 * C gives use that sum, so we can say that

`\cfrac{1}{6}C~~ =~~\cfrac{2}{3}\implies C = \cfrac{~~ (2)/(3)~~}{(1)/(6)}\implies C = \cfrac{2}{3}/ \cfrac{1}{6}\implies C = \cfrac{2}{\underset{1}{~~\begin{matrix} 3 \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~}}\cdot \cfrac{\stackrel{2}{~~\begin{matrix} 6 \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~}}{1}\implies C = 4`