Question

At the end of the night, a bakery had 1/4 of a cake left. Two employees of the bakery took home equal amount of the leftover cake. How mauch cake did each employee take home?

Answer 1

Part of the cake left ⇒ $\sf \frac{1}{4}$

No. of employees who toke it ⇒ $\sf 2$

Amount of cake each employe toke ⇒ $\sf \frac{1}{4}\div 2$

⇒ $\sf \frac{1}{4}\div 2$

⇒ $\sf \frac{1}{4}\times \frac{1}{2}$

⇒ $\sf \frac{1}{8}$

∴ Each employee toke $\sf \frac{1}{8}$th of the cake.

Additional Information

A fraction represents a part of a whole. A fraction consists of two parts namely - numerator and denominator. The numerator is used to represent the part of the whole and the denominator is used to represent the whole number part.

For example ⇒ $\sf \frac{6}{10}$

Here we can say that 6 is the part of the whole and the whole number is 10.