Question

jonathan and his two friends want to share 2 1/2 pounds of gum ball. If they share the gum ball evenly, how many pounds of gum balls will each of them get.

Answer 1

2 1/2 divided by 2 equals 1 1/4 So each person would get 1 whole pound of gumballs with 1/4 of an other pound

Answer 2

Given that "Jonathan and his two friends want to share 2 1/2 pounds of gum ball. If they share the gum ball evenly"

"Jonathan and his two friends" means there are total 3 persons in which we have to distribute gum ball.

Since we have to share gum ball evenly so that means we need to divide 2 1/2 pound by 3

so let's divide that.

$\frac{2 \frac{1}{2}}{3}= \frac{\frac{2*2+1}{2}}{3}= \frac{\frac{4+1}{2}}{3}= \frac{\frac{5}{2}}{3}=\frac{5}{2}*\frac{1}{3}=\frac{5*1}{2*3}=\frac{5}{6}$

Hence each of them will get $\frac{5}{6}$ pounds of the gum ball.