{"id":140840,"date":"2024-09-20T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=140840"},"modified":"2024-09-20T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:57:11","slug":"five-friends-are-sharing-a-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/20\/five-friends-are-sharing-a-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Five friends are sharing a pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Five friends are sharing a pizza. Two friend eats half of the pizza. The other three friends equally divide the rest among themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What portion of the pizza did each of the other three friends receive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.<br>1\/6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B.<br>1\/3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C.<br>5\/6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D.<br>1\/5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and Explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s break this down step by step to solve the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Total pizza<\/strong>: We start with a whole pizza, which equals 1 pizza.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Two friends eat half of the pizza<\/strong>: Together, these two friends consume 1\/2 of the pizza. Therefore, half of the pizza remains for the remaining three friends.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Remaining pizza<\/strong>: The remaining pizza for the other three friends is the other half, i.e., 1 &#8211; 1\/2 = 1\/2 of the pizza.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dividing the remaining pizza among three friends<\/strong>: Now, this remaining half (1\/2) is equally divided among the three friends. To determine how much each of the three friends receives, we divide 1\/2 by 3:<br>[<br>\\frac{1}{2} \\div 3 = \\frac{1}{2} \\times \\frac{1}{3} = \\frac{1}{6}<br>]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the remaining three friends gets <strong>1\/6<\/strong> of the pizza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Answer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>A. 1\/6<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The total pizza is 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two friends together eat half (1\/2) of the pizza, leaving 1\/2 of the pizza for the other three.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This remaining half of the pizza is then divided equally among the three friends.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When 1\/2 is divided by 3, each friend gets 1\/6 of the pizza.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The key to solving this problem is understanding that after two friends eat, only half of the pizza remains, and that half is equally divided among the remaining three friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, each of the other three friends receives 1\/6 of the pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five friends are sharing a pizza. Two friend eats half of the pizza. The other three friends equally divide the rest among themselves. What portion of the pizza did each of the other three friends receive? A.1\/6 B.1\/3 C.5\/6 D.1\/5 The correct answer and Explanation is : Let&#8217;s break this down step by step to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}