Six friends share 5 meat pies. each friend first eats half of a meat pie. how much more meat pie does each friend need to eat to finish all the meat pies and share them equally.

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Jayla Bryant

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2 December, 10:13

Six friends share 5 meat pies. each friend first eats half of a meat pie. how much more meat pie does each friend need to eat to finish all the meat pies and share them equally.

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Mylie Paul · Answer 1

So at the beginning, the friends eat 3 meat pies in total. So that leaves two meat pies left.

So basically, we divide the meat pies by the number of friends.

2/6 is 1/3

So each friend needs to eat 1/3 of a meat pie