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  • 15-10-2018
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Brian has a chunk of cheese that weighs 5 lb. He wants to divide the chunk into smaller pieces that weigh 1/4 lb each. How many smaller pieces will he have?

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  • 15-10-2018
He will have 20 smaller pieces of cheese.
To get the quotient you must divide 5 by 1/4. Since 1/4 is a fraction, turning it into a decimal would be .25.
5
[tex]5 \div .25 [/tex]
[tex] = 20[/tex]

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