A real-life application of this expression is in cooking. If a recipe calls for 1/4 cup of a certain ingredient, but you only need 1/4 of that amount for a smaller serving, you would divide 1/4 by another 1/4.
To simplify this expression, we need to follow the order of operations, which is division before multiplication. So we can rewrite the expression as:
1 ÷ 1/4 ÷ 1/4
To divide by a fraction, we actually multiply by its reciprocal. So we can rewrite the expression again as:
1 x 4/1 x 4/1
Simplifying this multiplication gives us:
16/1
So the simplified form of the expression 1 ÷ 1/4 ÷ 1/4 is 16.
The expression
1
÷
1
4
1
÷
1
4
is given. Give a real-life application to explain this expression and then simplify it.
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