Question

Sean and his sister, Betty equally mow 8/9th the total area of a lawn. What fraction of the total area did each of them mow? (Show ur work plz)

Answer 1

Since they mowed $\frac{8}{9}$ of the lawn in two equal parts, we need to split the pieces that were mowed into two equal groups. We know that in total they mowed 8 out of the total 9 pieces of lawn, so two equal groups that make 8 would be of size 4, since $\frac{8}{2}=4$. Then they each mowed $\frac{4}{9}$ of the lawn.