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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Start with the reverse. If you had half a pizza and you wanted to divide it by quarters of a pizza, you'd be able to do it 4 times (there are four quarter slices in a half pizza).

But with this we're asking how many half-pizza slices are in a quarter-pizza slice. The answer is that there's half of one (half of a half is a quarter).