At a party, 4 pizzas were distributed equally with 2 boys and 4 girls. How many pizzas did all the girls get altogether?
1 Answer
Explanation:
Since there are 6 people and 4 pizzas being divided, then you would do
4/6 is the same as 4 * 1/6. Since the rule for dividing fractions is keep, switch, flip. You keep the first number/fraction(4), switch the operation to either multiplication or division(multiplication), and flip the second fraction:
4/6 = 4 *
4 *
1). One way to solve the remainder of the problem is to first calculate the amount of pizza the boys received (+), and subtract that number/fraction from 4( amount of pizzas):
2). The other to solve this problem is to add up the amount of a whole of pizza each girl got: