Question

Alice has 1/6 of a box of cereal. Alice and her brother want to split the cereal equally. Which expression represents the fraction of the box of cereal that Alice gets?

Answer 1

`(1)/(6)/ 2`

Explanation:

We have been given that Alice has 1/6 of a box of cereal. Alice and her brother want to split the cereal equally.

Since there are two persons, who wants to divide 1/6 of a box of cereal, so we will divide total amount of cereal by 2 to find amount that each person would get.

`(1)/(6)/ 2`

`(1)/(6)*(1)/(2)`

`(1)/(12)`

Therefore, Alice will get
`(1)/(12)` of the cereal and expression
`(1)/(6)/ 2` represents this situation.