Maurice has four over five of a bag of popcorn left to share with his two brother if each of the three brothers will get the same amount how much of the bag will each person get

Answer 1

To find out how much popcorn each brother will get, you can divide the amount of popcorn Maurice has by the number of brothers, which includes himself.

Maurice has \( \frac{4}{5} \) of a bag of popcorn, and there are 3 brothers.

So we need to calculate:

\[ \text{Amount of popcorn each brother gets} = \frac{4/5}{3} \]

This can also be done by multiplying \( \frac{4}{5} \) by the reciprocal of 3:

\[ \frac{4}{5} \times \frac{1}{3} = \frac{4 \times 1}{5 \times 3} = \frac{4}{15} \]

Thus, each brother will get \( \frac{4}{15} \) of a bag of popcorn.