6 people will equally split 992 acres of land. To the nearest tenth of an acre, how much land will each person get?

Question

Write your answer as a decimal.

acres

Answer 1

To find out how much land each person will get, divide the total amount of land by the number of people.

\[ \text{Land per person} = \frac{992 \text{ acres}}{6} \]

Now, calculating the division:

\[ \frac{992}{6} = 165.3333\ldots \]

To round this value to the nearest tenth, we look at the first digit after the decimal point, which is 3.

Since 3 is less than 5, we round down. Thus, we only keep the first decimal place.

Therefore, each person gets approximately:

\[ 165.3 \text{ acres} \]

So, the final answer is:

\[ \boxed{165.3} \]