Real Life, Simple Math Problem That Is Giving Me Different Answers Each Time
Okay so I have a relatively “simple” math problem in relation to no longer being able to afford something (Being vague on purpose, the item is personal and I don’t want help with the item itself just the math. Let’s call it bread just to call it something) I had 8 slices of bread and I cut them all in half to try to stretch the bread until next Thursday, the 27th, so now I have 16 halves. I want to have the maximum amount of bread each day, and they cannot be cut anymore, so I have 16/9 basically. (I’m very bad at math so I am not even sure where the help I need starts). So if you break that down it’s like 1.77777, it means that I can have 1.5 slices of bread each day? But when I go back and try to confirm my math, I got a different answer all together. When I did 1.5 times 9, I only got 13.5 not the 16 I was expecting it to be. I am genuinely so stumped that I couldn’t even say for sure what calculator stage I’m making a mistake at. Thank you in advance for help with figuring this out!