Question

Which of the following situations result in an answer of 2/3? Select three that apply.

A: three dogs each drink 2 cups of water. How many cups of water does each dog drink in all?
B: Two apples split among 3 people. How much of an apple does each person recieve?
C: Two gallons of water needed to fill 3 fish tanks of an equal size. How many gallons of water are required for each tank?
D: Three cupcakes are divided among 2 children. How much of a cupcake would each children receive?
E: Two bags of bird seed are split among 5 parrots. What fraction of a bag does each parrot receive?
F: Three cats share 2 cans of tuna. How much of a can does each cat receive?

Answer 1

B: is the best answer because there splitting 2 apples among 3 people and that means there’s not enough for all, so they all receive 2/3 of an apple to all get shared with equally. Hopefully this helps!