The Rodriguez family ate One-third of a pan of brownies, and they plan to divide the remaining brownies into two equal parts. They will take one part to their block party and the other part to share with co-workers. How much of the whole pan of brownies will each place get?

Question

A model has 2 shaded parts and 1 unshaded part.
One-sixth
One-third
One-half
Two-thirds

Answer 1

The Rodriguez family ate one-third of a pan of brownies, which means that two-thirds of the pan of brownies remains (since \(1 - \frac{1}{3} = \frac{2}{3}\)).

They plan to divide the remaining two-thirds into two equal parts. To find out how much each place will get, we divide the remaining brownies:

\[ \frac{2}{3} \div 2 = \frac{2}{3} \times \frac{1}{2} = \frac{2}{6} = \frac{1}{3} \]

So, each place will get one-third of the whole pan of brownies.

The answer is One-third.