Asked by Sophia

The expression 1÷14
is given. Give a real-life application to explain this expression and then simplify it.

(2 points)

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Example: You have 1 pizza and 14 friends, and you share the pizza equally. Each person gets 1 ÷ 14 of the pizza.

Simplify: 1 ÷ 14 = 1/14 (already in lowest terms, since gcd(1,14)=1). As a decimal this is 0.071428571428... (the block 714285 repeats), ≈ 0.07143, which is about 7.1429%.