Pedro and Devin are cooking their favorite breakfast, scrambled eggs with canned ham. Devin opens the can and cuts the ham into 2 equal pieces. Pedro eats 1 piece with his eggs.What fraction of the ham does Pedro eats with his eggs?____ /____
Q. Pedro and Devin are cooking their favorite breakfast, scrambled eggs with canned ham. Devin opens the can and cuts the ham into 2 equal pieces. Pedro eats 1 piece with his eggs.What fraction of the ham does Pedro eats with his eggs?____ /____
Devin cuts ham: Devin cuts the ham into 2 equal pieces, and Pedro eats 1 of those pieces. To find the fraction of the ham Pedro eats, we consider the piece he ate out of the total pieces.
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