Have 5/8 bag of peas and used 2/3 of package and split equally between 5 people. what is the fraction peas per person?

Question

What is the equal fraction for the 5 people

 

Answer 1

let 5/8 be  the whole package .

you used 2/3 of the package so it would be 2/3 of 5/8

when you split equally between 5 people  it means divided by 5  same as 5/1.

when you divide by a fraction you invert and multiply so this is the same as multiply by 1/5

 

amount per person = total amount divided by number of people

        (2/3*5/8) / 5 = 2/3*5/8*1/5

reduce to lowest term by canceling common factors

 

amount per person = 1/12