A scientist is placing 1/5 of the bugs into 3 equal groups for an experiment. What fraction of the entire group of bugs will be in each experimental group?
you can reason this concretely. suppose you start with 60 bugs. 1/5 of the 60 bugs is 12 bugs divide 12 bugs into 3 equal groups. each group has 12/3 = 4 bugs. the fraction now is 4/60 in lowest terms this is 1/15
