Question

40 students shared 5 pizzas equally. How much pizza will each student receive? What fraction of the pizza did each student receive?

Answer 1

5 pizza = 40 slices so each person got one slice 

Answer 2

Each student will receive $\frac{1}{8}$ of pizza.

Further Explanation

Given:

• There are 40 students
• They share 5 pizza equally

Question:

What fraction of the pizza did each student receive?

We can solve this problem by using proportions:

Let's say, the portion of pizza that student receive is 'x pizza' so the equation will be :

$\boxed {\frac{5 pizzas}{40 students} = \frac{x pizzas}{1 student} }$

by doing cross multiplication we get:

$\boxed {x pizza = \frac{5 pizzas \times 1 student}{40 students} }$

We can cancel out the student unit, then we get

$\boxed {x pizza = \frac{5}{40} = \frac{1}{8} }$

So, each student will receive $\boxed {\frac{1}{8} }$ part of pizza.

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