Question

John cut his pizza into 6 equal slices and ate two of them. Tim cut his pizza(the same size) into 3 equal
slices and ate one of them. Did they eat the same amount of pizza?
a. Yes
b. No​

Answer 1

Answer:

What are fractions?

A fraction is part of a whole. It's less than 1 whole thing, but more than 0. We use fractions all the time in real life. Have you ever ordered a quarter-pound burger? Or noticed that your gas tank is half full? Both of these are fractions of the whole amount—a whole pound of meat, or a whole tank of gas.

Fractions look a little like division expressions, but they aren't problems to be solved. They are a way of expressing an amount. Like numbers, fractions tell you how much you have of something.

View the slides below to learn how fractions work.

Let's imagine that you have one pizza divided into 8 slices.

Say that you take 1 of the 8 slices.

You could say that you took 1/8 of the pizza. 1/8 is a fraction.

We write it like that because the pizza has 8 slices...

We write it like that because the pizza has 8 slices...and you're taking 1.

What if you take 2 slices?