Janet bought 1/2 cake. She ate 1/4 of the cake she bought. Then she cut the remainder into 2 equal pieces. What fraction of a whole cake was each piece?

Answer 1

Cut the cake in half. Cut the two half into 4th. Then cut each of the two halves into 2. You then get 16 pieces


Fraction for the whole cake:
16/16
for half of cake ts
8/16
for the piece she ate

8/16 x 1/4
=2/16
she ate 2/16 of the whole cake

the remaining piece
8/16 x 3/4
= 6/16
each of the 2 pieces of the remaining piece
(6/16)/2
= 3/16

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Answer 2

Val cuts her birthday cake into 10 pieces.Each person had one piece.They ate 3/5 of the cake.How many people were at Val's party?