To find out how much of the cake each friend ate, divide the total amount of cake eaten by the number of friends who ate it.
9 friends ate 3/4 of the cake, so each friend ate (3/4) / 9.
To divide a fraction by a whole number, multiply the fraction by the reciprocal of the whole number:
(3/4) / 9 = (3/4) * (1/9) = 3/36 = 1/12.
Therefore, each friend ate 1/12 of the cake.
At Mariah's birthday party, 9 of her friends ate 3/4 of her chocolate cake. How much of the cake did each friend eat?(1 point) Responses 12, 6 3/4, 1/9, 1 1/2
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