Question

1. I have 1/2 of a cake left. I need to divide it equally among 5 people. What fraction of the whole cake would each person get ? Please show your work and write your answer in the simplest form.

Answer 1

Given:

The left over part of a cake is,

$\frac{1}{2}$

We need to divide it among 5 people.

So, we have,

$\begin{gathered} \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{5}=\frac{1}{2}\times\frac{1}{5} \\ =\frac{1}{10} \end{gathered}$

Hence, the fraction of the whole cake would each person get is,

$\frac{1}{10}$