Question

There are three people in a room. If they cut an apple into $3$ equal pieces and take $1$ piece each, each has eaten what part of the apple ?

• A. one
• B. one-third
• C. half
• D. one-fourth

Answer 1

The correct option is B one-third

Suppose, each equal piece of the apple $=x$
Apple is cut into $3$ equal parts.

Therefore, $x+x+x=1$
$\Rightarrow 3x=1$
$\Rightarrow x=\frac{1}{3}$
$\therefore$ each person has eaten one- third part of the apple.