question 1 A theater has 500 seats. three-fourth of seats are filled how many seats are filled? show steps how you got the answer

1/2 / 1/2 = show steps how you got that answer @zepdrix

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question 1 A theater has 500 seats. three-fourth of seats are filled how many seats are filled? show steps how you got the answer


1/2 / 1/2 =    show steps how you got that answer @zepdrix

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

question 2.     1/2 / 1/2 show stps how you got the answer

zepdrix · Answer

Take the 500 seats.
Break it up into 4 equal groups.
Then add up 3 of those groups.

anonymous · Answer

375

zepdrix · Answer

125 in each group?
3 of those add up to 375?

Ok good job :)

zepdrix · Answer

The second question is a little hard to read.
Is it formatted like this?$$\large\rm \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{1}{2}}$$

anonymous · Answer

well it's 1/2 divided by 1/2 and im supposed to find the answer and explain how i got it

zepdrix · Answer

Bah I did that backwards hehe, one sec

zepdrix · Answer

If you had been given this question:$$\large\rm 2\div\frac{1}{2}$$It's essentially asking you, how many 1/2's can fit into the number 2.
It ends up being 4, yes?
Because 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 2.

zepdrix · Answer

So for your problem, it's simply this:$$\large\rm \frac{1}{2}\div\frac{1}{2}$$How many 1/2's can fit into 1/2?

anonymous · Answer

1

zepdrix · Answer

Wow the page just refreshed :(
Erased everything I was writing.. ugh

Anyway, yes. 1 is your answer :)

anonymous · Answer

but how do you get the answer @zepdrix

zepdrix · Answer

We can apply one of two different rules.
The first one is pretty simple:
Whenever you divide a non-zero quantity by itself, the result is always 1.$$\large\rm 2\div 2=1$$$$\large\rm 5\div5=1$$$$\large\rm 37.23\div37.23=1$$$$\large\rm \frac{1}{8}\div\frac{1}{8}=1$$

zepdrix · Answer

The other explanation you could use, I'm not sure if you've learned this yet though...

anonymous · Answer

thankyou soo much ur a big help 1 medal for you

zepdrix · Answer

We have this "Keep Change Flip" rule for dealing with division of fractions.
Example:$$\large\rm \frac{2}{3}\div\frac{5}{8}\quad=\frac{2}{3}\times\frac{8}{5}$$We `Keep` the top fraction the same.
We `Change` the operation from division to multiplication.
We `Flip` the bottom fraction.

And so in your problem, it would have become,$$\large\rm \frac{1}{2}\div\frac{1}{2}\quad=\frac{1}{2}\times\frac{2}{1}\quad=\frac{2}{2}\quad=1$$

zepdrix · Answer

That's a little bit of a fancier way to do it though :)