At a party, $10$ $10$ people equally shared $2 \frac{1}{2}$ $2 1/2$ gallons of ice cream. How much ice cream did each person eat?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-04T03:39:07

1/4 a gallon

First, convert $2 \frac{1}{2}$ $2 1/2$ to an improper fraction

$\frac{5}{2}$ $5/2$

Then, divide it by ten, for the ten people who ate the ice cream

$\frac{5}{2}$ $5/2$ / $\frac{10}{1}$ $10/1$

Flip the Numerator and Denomenator of the divisor, and change the division to multiplication

$\frac{5}{2}$ $5/2$ * $\frac{1}{10}$ $1/10$

Multiply

$\frac{5}{20}$ $5/20$

Simplify

$\frac{1}{4}$ $1/4$

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