Subject: Fractions

What is 5/8 of a 16 slice pizza?

Hi,

If you have a pizza sliced into 16 parts and you want to divide it evenly among 8 people, then each person get 2 peices. That is, 1/8th of a 16 slice pizza is 2.

5/8th is 5 times as much, that is 5x2 = 10.

Cheers,
Penny
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