Kate is making a pasta salad for her family party. She has 3 pounds of pasta salad to serve 12 people. She wants to give an equal amount of pasta salad to each person in her family. How much pasta salad should Kate put in each person’s bowl?

0.25 of a pound, 1/4

Step-by-step explanation:

3 divided by 12 = 0.25

step-by-step explanation:

the multiplicative inverse of a fraction a/b is b/a. for the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. for example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth 1/5 or 0.2, and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4.