At a party, 4 pizzas were distributed equally with 2 boys and 4 girls. How many pizzas did all the girls get altogether?

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VivtheDancer
Oct 24, 2017

# 2 2/3# pizzas

Explanation:

Since there are 6 people and 4 pizzas being divided, then you would do #4/6#, or 4 / 6. Since it's the pizzas being split, not the people:

#4/6# ...

4/6 is the same as 4 * 1/6. Since the rule for dividing fractions is keep, switch, flip. You keep the first number/fraction(4), switch the operation to either multiplication or division(multiplication), and flip the second fraction:

4/6 = 4 *# 1/6#

4 *# 1/6# result in the answer #4/6#, or #2/3#. #2/3# represents the amount of a whole of pizza each boy/girl gets. So in this case there are two possible ways to solve the problem from this point:

1). One way to solve the remainder of the problem is to first calculate the amount of pizza the boys received (+), and subtract that number/fraction from 4( amount of pizzas):

#2/3# +#2/3# = #4/3#=#1 1/3# pizzas the boys received.

#4- 1 1/3#= #3 3/3- 1 1/3#= #2 2/3# pizzas the girls received.

2). The other to solve this problem is to add up the amount of a whole of pizza each girl got:

#2/3# + #2/3#+ #2/3#+#2/3#= #4/3# + #4/3# = #8/3# = #2 2/3# pizzas the girls received.

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