Questions: At the end of the day, a bakery had 44 / 5 pies left over. The 6 employees each took home the same amount of leftover pie. How much pie did each employee take home?
Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Transcript text: At the end of the day, a bakery had $44 / 5$ pies left over. The 6 employees each took home the same amount of leftover pie. How much pie did each employee take home?
Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Solution
Solution Steps
To find out how much pie each employee took home, we need to divide the total amount of leftover pie by the number of employees. The total leftover pie is given as a fraction, and we will divide this fraction by the number of employees to find the amount each employee took home.
Step 1: Determine Total Leftover Pies
The total amount of leftover pies is given as \( \frac{44}{5} \).
Step 2: Identify Number of Employees
There are 6 employees who will share the leftover pies equally.
Step 3: Calculate Pie per Employee
To find out how much pie each employee took home, we divide the total leftover pies by the number of employees:
\[
\text{Pie per employee} = \frac{44/5}{6} = \frac{44}{5} \times \frac{1}{6} = \frac{44}{30} = \frac{22}{15}
\]
Final Answer
Each employee took home \( \boxed{\frac{22}{15}} \) pies.