Question

Every year on March 14, Asheville holds a pie-eating contest. Each team races to finish a pumpkin pie, a pecan pie, and a blueberry pie as quickly as possible. Last year, Chase and Vicky entered the contest as a team. They each ate the same amount of pie and won! How much pie did each person eat? Write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number.

Answer 1

`(1)/(2)`

Explanation:

In order for a participant to win the contest, they need to eat all three pies. Since Chase and Vicky entered the contest as a team of 2 people then each one of them would need to eat 1.5 pies to finish the entire 3 pies. Therefore the fractions would be
`(1.5)/(3)` . Since this would technically be half of the pies then we can simplify the fraction to be
`(1)/(2)` (half). Therefore, Chase would eat half of the 3 available pies and Vicky would eat the other half of the 3 available pies to win the contest.