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15 June, 00:57

A scientist is placing 1/5 of the bugs into 3 equal groups for an experiment. What fraction of the entire group of bugs will be in each experimental group?

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  1. 15 June, 04:02
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    you can reason this concretely.

    suppose you start with 60 bugs.

    1/5 of the 60 bugs is 12 bugs

    divide 12 bugs into 3 equal groups. each group has 12/3 = 4 bugs.

    the fraction now is 4/60

    in lowest terms this is 1/15
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