You want to make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over.

a.) you want to divide the leftover salad evenly among six friends. What expression describes the situation? Exlplain.

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Emelia Sandoval

Mathematics

3 August, 18:35

You want to make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over.

a.) you want to divide the leftover salad evenly among six friends. What expression describes the situation? Exlplain.

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Jacob Stanley · Answer 1

Lets think the entire bowl of salad as 1 unit. Now your brother eats one-third. So the remaining salad is 1 minus 1/3. And now you want to divide the remaining salad evenly among 6 friends. so it is 1 - (1/3) divided by 6. To put it in one single expression, it is (1 - (1/3)) / 6

You want to make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over.a.) you want to divide the leftover salad evenly among six friends. What expression describes the situation? Exlplain.

You want to make a large bowl of salad to share with your friends. Your brother eats 1/3 of it before they come over.

a.) you want to divide the leftover salad evenly among six friends. What expression describes the situation? Exlplain.