To find out how much ground beef is on each plate, you can divide the total amount of ground beef by the number of plates.
You have a total of \( \frac{2}{3} \) pound of ground beef divided among 3 plates:
\[ \text{Amount on each plate} = \frac{2/3 \text{ pound}}{3} \]
To divide \( \frac{2}{3} \) by 3, you can multiply \( \frac{2}{3} \) by the reciprocal of 3, which is \( \frac{1}{3} \):
\[ \frac{2}{3} \times \frac{1}{3} = \frac{2 \times 1}{3 \times 3} = \frac{2}{9} \]
So, each plate has \( \frac{2}{9} \) pound of ground beef.
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