Question

At the picnic there are $3$ pieces of fruit for $4$ people. How many pieces of fruit will each person receive?

Answer 1

Hint: When we have $m$ amount of a matter and there are $n$ people, we will divide $m$ by $n$ so that all the people present will receive equal amounts of the matter. To divide some amount of a matter for a certain number of people equally, we need to divide the amount of the matter by the number of people present.

Complete step by step solution:
Let us consider the given problem. In this problem, we have $3$ pieces of fruit and there are $4$ people present.
Now we need to find the amount of fruit each person will receive.
We know that the amount of fruit each person will receive can be found by dividing the amount of fruit we have by the number of people present.
We can understand what we need to do now. We need to divide $3$ by $4$ to get the amount of fruit each person will receive.
So, the amount of fruit each person will receive is given by $\dfrac{3}{4}.$
The decimal form of the obtained value is $0.75.$
We have found that we can divide the $3$ pieces of fruit for $4$ people as $\dfrac{3}{4}$ pieces per person.

Hence each of the $4$ people will receive $\dfrac{3}{4}=0.75$ of the fruit we have.

Note: We will get the answer if we consider it as the pieces of fruit per person. That is, pieces per person. Also, we have to be careful while solving the question to reduce the chances of calculation mistakes.