Maia was serving five pizzas at the weekly meeting of the student council. She wanted to divide the pizzas into slices that were each $\frac { 1 } { 8 }$ of a whole pizza.

1. How many slices will she have?

   Hint (a):

   How many $\frac{1}{8}$ slices of pizza equal a whole?

   More help (a):

   Let $x$ represent the number of slices in a whole pizza.
   $\frac{1}{8} (x) = 1$

   Step (a):

   There are $8$ slices in each whole pizza.
   If there are $5$ whole pizzas, how many slices are there total?

   Answer (a):

   $40$ slices.

2. Represent this problem using a mathematical sentence. Can you find more than one way to do this?

   Possible Answer (b):

   $5 \div \frac{1}{8} = 40$
   Now try to find another way to arrive at this answer.