Pizza — 2/8 = 1/4 — free printable clipart

What 2/8 of a pizza looks like

This pizza was cut into 8 equal eighths and 2 of them are shown, so it is a picture of the fraction 2/8, which simplifies to 1/4. That is 25% of the whole pizza.

Fraction shown

2/8

In words

two eighths

Slices on the pizza

8

Slices still there

2

Slices taken

6

Simplest form

1/4

As a decimal

0.25

As a percentage

25%

Angle of one slice

45°

Angle of the part shown

90° of the full 360°

• The bottom number of a fraction says how many equal parts the whole was cut into, and the top number says how many of them you have. This pizza was cut into 8 equal eighths, and 2 are still there, so the fraction is 2/8.
• The slices have to be equal for the fraction to mean anything. A pizza cut into 8 equal pieces gives each piece 360° ÷ 8 = 45° of the turn around the middle, and the 2 slices shown take up 90°.
• 2/8 and 6/8 together make the whole pizza: 2/8 + 6/8 = 8/8 = 1.
• 2/8 and 1/4 are the same amount of pizza written two ways — dividing both numbers by 2 does not change how much there is. That is what equivalent fractions means, and it is easier to see on a pizza than on a number line.