Question

You make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over.

a. You want to divide the leftover salad evenly among 6 friends. What expression describes the situation?
b. What fractional portion of the original bowl of salad does each friend receive?

Answer 1

(1-1/3)/6

each friend gets 0.1 of the salad compared to the 0.16 they would have gotton