Mrs. sims cuts a melon into fifths. she gave one piece to her 4 children. she used equal amounts of the leftover melon to make 3 fruit cups. what did she use to make each fruit cup? ( me today. i am really desperate and under a lot of striss so me.)

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following

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mean or average is 40.6