One fourth of a box of cereal was shared equally among 3 people. how much cereal did each person get?
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Okay so the problem starts you off with the fraction (1/4). Sharing equally among 3 people would mean that you'd want to divide it by three so your equation would initially look like (1/4) / 3. Having two dividing signs is confusing so what you do is change the dividing into multiplying by the reciprocal of 3 = 1/3... This would make your expression (1/4) * (1/3) and when you simplify this you should get 1/12 as the answer.   

A. dividing 99 by 204 will tell you that 99 out of 204 of the people were females at the action movie.