6people share 3/5 pounds of peanuts equally what fraction of a pound of peanuts does each person receive

Hello! To solve this problem, we have to do 3/5 / 6, because you are dividing 3/5 of a bag among six people. In other words, it would be 3/5 * 1/6. You keep the first fraction, change the division sign into a multiplication one, and flip 6 into 1/6. 3/5 * 1/6 = 3/30 or 1/10 in simplest form. Each person receives 1/10 of a pound of peanuts.

No because if you do the higher number minus the lower number you will get a positive. if you do it the other way around you will get a negative number