Answer:
1/12
Step-by-step explanation:
It is given that :
Amount of cereal left = 1/3 of a box
Number of people amongst whom the box of cereal is to be divided equally = 4
Therefore, an equation representing this problem is :
[tex]$\frac{1/3}{4} = x$[/tex]
where x = is the amount of the share each brother gets.
Therefore solving the equation, we get :
[tex]$\frac{1/3}{4} = x$[/tex]
[tex]$\frac{1}{3} \times \frac{1}{4} = x$[/tex]
[tex]$\frac{1}{12}=x$[/tex]
So, each brother got 1/12th of the cereal left.
