By taking a quotient between the total area and the number of children, we conclude that each one will get 9 ⁴/₅ acres.
How much should each of the children get?
Here we know that a farmer has a total of 49 acres, and he wants to divide it evenly among his 5 children.
So we just need to take the quotient between 49 and 5, this is:
49/5
First, we can rewrite:
49 = 45 + 4
Replacing that in the quotient we get:
49/5 = (45 + 4)/5 = 45/5 + 4/5
The first term is equal to 9, then we can rewrite:
49/5 = (45 + 4)/5 = 45/5 + 4/5 = 9 + 4/5
From this quotient, we conclude that each one of the 5 children gets an area of 9 + 4/5 acres. Written as a mixed number this would be:
A = 9 ⁴/₅ acres.
So the correct option is the first one.
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