Question

Hank had 4 1/2 pounds of fish. He needed to split it up equally into 34 pound portions for his friends. How many friends will he be able to share it with?

Answer 1

Problem

Hank had 4 1/2 pounds of fish. He needed to split it up equally into 34 pound portions for his friends. How many friends will he be able to share it with?​

Solution

For this case we can do the following:

$4\frac{1}{2}=\frac{4\cdot2+1}{2}=\frac{9}{2}$

and we can divide this number by 34 and we got:

$\frac{9}{2}\cdot\frac{1}{34}=\frac{9}{68}$

So then to each friend correspond 9/68 pounds of fish