Mrs. Bodenheimer brought 40 cupcakes for her best behaved math class... if there are 24 students in the class, how many cupcakes would each student get?
step 1
Divide the number of cupcakes by the number of students
so
40/24
Simplify
40/24=20/12=10/6=5/3
REmember that
5/3=3/3+2/3=1+2/3=1 2/3
therefore
Each students get 1 2/3 cupcake
