Question

Erin and her 7 friends want to share 6 small veggie pizzas equally. How much pizza will each of them get?

Answer 1

Hint: In this question, the word problem based on the fraction is given. Fraction word problems can be solved in the same way as the whole number word problems.
The steps to solve the fraction word problem as below:
• Read the problem carefully.
• Think about what it is asking us to do.
• Use the “divide and conquer” method and think about the information we need.
• Solve the problem.
• Convert it into its simplest form.

Complete step by step answer:
In this question, given that “Erin and her 7 friends want to share pizza” that means the total count is 8 members.
They want to share 6 small pizzas equally.
That means 6 pizzas will share among 8 members. And we want to find how many pizzas each of them gets.
 Therefore, we can divide 6 by 8.
$ \Rightarrow \dfrac{{6pizzas}}{{8members}}$
Here, 6 is the number of pizzas that they want to share that is written in the numerator, and 8 is the number of members that is written in the denominator.
That is equal to,
$ \Rightarrow \dfrac{6}{8}$
Let us convert the above expression in its simplest form. That means to cancel out the common factors from the numerator and the denominator.
$ \Rightarrow \dfrac{3}{4}$
Hence, Erin and her 7 friends want to share 6 small veggie pizzas equally. Then each of them get $\dfrac{3}{4}$ pizzas.

Note: A fraction simply tells us how many parts of the whole number are there in reference to the problem. It is shown in the form of ‘/’, as in, $\dfrac{a}{b}$. The number on the top is called the numerator and the number below is called the denominator.