A wedding cake was cut into 40 slices 32 slices were eaten what fraction represents the Eaton portion of the cake reduce your answer to lowest terms

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To find the fraction of the cake that was eaten, we need to divide the number of slices eaten by the total number of slices:

32 slices eaten out of 40 total slices:
32/40

To reduce this fraction to lowest terms, we can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor, which is 8:

32/40 รท 8/8
4/5

Therefore, the fraction representing the eaten portion of the cake is 4/5.