Question

Nisha took a paper, she cut the paper into five equal parts. She again divided each part into 8 equal parts.
What fraction of the whole paper is the smallest part?

Answer 1

answer

She devided 1 part of 5 parts = 8 parts. she will devide 5 parts into = 8 * 5 = 40 parts.

Answer 2

She cut the paper into 5 equal parts.

So , the part of the paper cut is = 1/5

Then , she cut the each part into 8 equal parts

So , the smallest part is = 1/5 ÷ 8

= 1/5 × 1/8

= 1/40.