To find out how much potato salad each person gets, divide 1/4 pound by 2, which is represented by the multiplication expression 1/4 pound × 1/2, resulting in 1/8 pound for each person.
Diego and Clare wish to equally share 1/4 pound of potato salad. To find out how much each person gets, we need to divide the total amount by the number of people sharing the salad, which in this case, is 2. Therefore, we write a multiplication expression to represent the amount each person gets as:
1/4 pound × 1/2 = 1/8 pound.