Question

Mr. Wilson bought a bag of bird seed and put half of it in the bird feeder.He split the other half equally among his 4 parrot birds how much of the bag did each pet bird eat

Answer 1

Each parrot Bird ate 1/8 of a bag

Explanation:

Here, we are interested in calculating the portion of the bag eaten by each of the pet birds

Firstly, we know he put 1/2 in the feeder, the amount not put in the feeder = 1-1/2 = 1/2 bag

Now this 1/2 bag was shared amongst 4 parrot birds, amount eaten by each of the parrot birds = 1/2 divided by 4 = 1/8 of the bag