>>12592262One way to think about division is how many things go into another thing.
So 30 divided by 10 is 3, because three 10s make up 30, or in other words, 10+10+10 = 30.
5 divided by 1/2 is like asking the question "How many 1/2's do we have to add up to get 5?" As
>>12592239 pointed out, the answer is ten. In other words, 0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5 = 5.
I like
>>12592334's idea to think about things in terms of pizza. If you have 10 half-pizzas, how many whole pizzas do you have? The answer is 5!
There are 10 half-pizzas in 5 pizzas, so 5 ÷ 1/2 = 10.
For a quick way to do it, remember that dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by the fraction flipped over. So 5 ÷ 1/2 = 5 x 2/1 = 5 x 2 = 10.
