Question

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Mrs. Whimsey's class is having a pizza party. If there are 16 students and 4 pizzas cut into 8 slices, what answer choice represents the fraction of one pizza each student receives?
Answers:
1. 1/3
2.1/16
3.1/4
4.1/8

Answer 1

@Hello_Im_Nick

Answer 2

Can someone explain that to me? @Hello_Im_Nick @ash2326 @amistre64

Answer 3

how about you pay us with food instead?

Answer 4

@nincompoop Help me?

Answer 5

actually I think the answer would be 1/4 because 4 pizzas*8 slices=32 and 32/16=2 slices for each student so 2/8 which = 1/4

Answer 6

Is the question means "each pizza is cut into 8 slices" or "4 pizzas is cut into 8 slices"?

Answer 7

I think the first is right.

Answer 8

sure
4 pizzas cut into 8
that means you would have \[4\times \frac{ 8 }{ 8}\]
in total you would have 32 slices
if you have 16 students, each student can have 2 slice
so we will use
2:16
but that can be simplified to
2/2 : 16/2
1:8

Answer 9

If this is so, there are 4*8=32 slices of pizza. 32/16=2, each student gets 2 slices. One slice is 1/8 of the pizza, then each student gets 1/4.

Answer 10

exactly @Chineseboy15

Answer 11

if you cut 4 pizzas and yielded only 8 slices then each pizza is only halved
if there are 16 students then each student gets a half slice

Answer 12

half a slice

Answer 13

@nincompoop then shouldn't it be 1/16? a pizza

Answer 14

yes, mango

Answer 15

because the fraction of 1 student gets in a pizza, not of all 4 pizza

Answer 16

@Chineseboy15 1/2 is not in the choice but half a slice means half of a half, which amounts to 1/4
but that's a wrong analysis.

Answer 17

Oh.

Answer 18

so the answer is 1/4

Answer 19

we are looking how much one would get in A pizza of 8 slices
there are 16 students
1 pizza is divided into 8
for a student to get a piece of 1/8, he or she would have to share it with another student so all of them get the same amount

Answer 20

The answer is 1/4 I think because it is the number of pizzas over the number of student - 4/16 = 1/4

Answer 21

well @mangorox this is your question you put what you think is right