At a party, 4 pizzas were distributed equally with 2 boys and 4 girls. How many pizzas did all the girls get altogether?

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At a party, 4 pizzas were distributed equally with 2 boys and 4 girls. How many pizzas did all the girls get altogether?

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Answer 1 · 2017-10-24T01:18:03

$2 \frac{2}{3}$ $2 2/3$ pizzas

Explanation:

Since there are 6 people and 4 pizzas being divided, then you would do $\frac{4}{6}$ $4/6$ , or 4 / 6. Since it's the pizzas being split, not the people:

$\frac{4}{6}$ $4/6$ ...

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 * $\frac{1}{6}$ $1/6$

4 * $\frac{1}{6}$ $1/6$ result in the answer $\frac{4}{6}$ $4/6$ , or $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ . $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ represents the amount of a whole of pizza each boy/girl gets. So in this case there are two possible ways to solve the problem from this point:

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):

$\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ + $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ = $\frac{4}{3}$ $4/3$ = $1 \frac{1}{3}$ $1 1/3$ pizzas the boys received.

$4 - 1 \frac{1}{3}$ $4- 1 1/3$ = $3 \frac{3}{3} - 1 \frac{1}{3}$ $3 3/3- 1 1/3$ = $2 \frac{2}{3}$ $2 2/3$ pizzas the girls received.

2). The other to solve this problem is to add up the amount of a whole of pizza each girl got:

$\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ + $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ + $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ + $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ = $\frac{4}{3}$ $4/3$ + $\frac{4}{3}$ $4/3$ = $\frac{8}{3}$ $8/3$ = $2 \frac{2}{3}$ $2 2/3$ pizzas the girls received.

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