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

1/12

1 answer

To find out how much of the cake each friend ate, we need to divide the amount of cake that was eaten by the number of friends.

Total cake eaten = \( \frac{3}{4} \)

Number of friends = 9

Amount eaten by each friend is calculated as follows:

\[ \text{Amount eaten by each friend} = \frac{\text{Total cake eaten}}{\text{Number of friends}} = \frac{3/4}{9} \]

To divide the fraction, we can multiply by the reciprocal:

\[ \frac{3}{4} \div 9 = \frac{3}{4} \times \frac{1}{9} = \frac{3 \times 1}{4 \times 9} = \frac{3}{36} = \frac{1}{12} \]

So, each friend ate \( \frac{1}{12} \) of the cake.

The correct response is:

1/12