Question

Jack buys a bag of 5 apples each equal in size he eat 1/2 of one Apple what fraction did he eat

Answer 1

You have
`4(1)/(2)` apples left.
You have 5 whole apples, you took one whole apple out, which equals 4 whole apples left. Then with the whole apple you took out, you ate
`(1)/(2)` of it.
Jack ate
`(1)/(2)` of an apple in 5 apples.
If you say that Jack ate
`(1)/(2)` of 3 apples, then he ate
`1(1)/(2)` apples. So there isn't any difference when he ate
`(1)/(2)` of an apple.