If you would like to know how to equally share 3 yards of yarn with 6 people, you can calculate this using the following steps:
6 people ... 3 yards of yarn
1 person ... x yards of yarn = ?
6 * x = 3 * 1
6 * x = 3 /6
x = 3/6
x = 1/2 yard of yarn
The correct result would be 1/2 yard of yarn.