Now, as you can see, everyone has three slices of quiche. Each slice is a fifth of
a quiche, so everyone has three-fifths (⅗) of a quiche. So three quiches were
divided equally among five people to give each person ⅗ of a quiche.
This is what this problem was designed to demonstrate—that 3 divided by 5
and ⅗ are the same thing: three quiches divided by five people = ⅗ of a quiche
per person. Read this paragraph over and over again until you understand it.
Then go eat some quiche.
Complex Fractions
The Evil Testing Serpent loves testing your ability to work with fractions by
creating problems that contain complex fractions. A complex fraction is a regular
fraction divided by another regular fraction. Here are some complex fractions:
Because complex fractions are a pain in the neck, you want to turn them into
regular fractions. There is a simple rule for simplifying complex fractions.