Question

Alexander is dividing oranges into eights. He has 5 oranges. How many eights will we have?

Answer 1

alexander will end up with 40 eights

Answer 2

One eight corresponds to the rational number $\frac{1}{8}=0.125$.

In this problem, Alexander has 5 oranges. In order to calculate how many eights are contained in 5 oranges, we should divide the total number of oranges (5) by the value of each eighth (1/8), so we get:

$N=\frac{5}{\frac{1}{8}}=8\5 = 40$

So, 5 oranges contain 40 eigths.