Question

Howie has 5 over 8 of a pizza left over from last night dinner . He loves pizza and eat half of the remaining pizza the next day for breakfast

A) draw your diagram or use your unit-rectangle resource page to determine what portion of the original pizza howie ate for breakfast

Answer 1

He should have 2.5/8 or 5/16 left of the pizza. For the diagram, draw a circle, split it in eighths, shade in 5/8 of the circle in red, and half of what's left over blue.

Hope it's not too late.