Joy's class wants to give some money to the children's hospital in town. The class is planning to earn the money with a bake sale. So, Joy has baked banana bread to sell. Joy cuts the banana bread into $8$ equal pieces. Joy's classmate Devin buys $1$ piece. $\newline$ What fraction of the banana bread does Devin buy? $\newline$ /

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Q. Joy's class wants to give some money to the children's hospital in town. The class is planning to earn the money with a bake sale. So, Joy has baked banana bread to sell. Joy cuts the banana bread into

8

equal pieces. Joy's classmate Devin buys

1

piece.

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What fraction of the banana bread does Devin buy?

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Baking Banana Bread: Joy baked banana bread and cut it into $8$ equal pieces. Devin buys $1$ piece. To find the fraction of the banana bread Devin buys, we consider the total pieces and the piece Devin bought.
Devin's Purchase: Devin buys $1$ piece out of $8$ . So, the fraction representing what Devin bought is $\frac{1}{8}$ .