math from finding a fraction

Question

Farmer Bill planted  of an acre of land with 5 types of crops. If he planted an equal amount of each crop, what fraction of an acre did each crop get?

Answer 1

It is very important to keep UNITS in mind when solving math problems.

This question asks (reworded), "How many acres per crop?"

"an acre of land with 5 types of crops" means:

(1 acre) per (5 crops)

( 1/5 ) acre per crop

( 1/5 ) acre/crop

Answer 2

Because I prefer to work with percentages, I'm going to use this method. .

For this, you would set the acre of land to 100 then divide this by the amount of crops you have.

100/5 = 20

There will be 20 percent of land devoted to each crop. To find the fraction, divide this by the total, which will be 100

20/100 = 1/5

Therefore, each crop gets 1/5 of an acre.