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?
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]
