Total Amount of Candy = 4/3rd pound
Sharing among "3" people {Yajaira and 2 of her friends].
To get the amount, in pounds, each person gets, we divide the total amount by "3". Shown below:
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{\frac{4}{3}}{3} \\ =\frac{\frac{4}{3}}{\frac{3}{1}} \\ =\frac{4}{3}\times\frac{1}{3} \\ =\frac{4\times1}{3\times3} \\ =\frac{4}{9} \end{gathered}[/tex]Thus, each person gets 4/9 pound of candies.
