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):

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

   Step 1 (a):

   Let x represent the number of slices in a whole pizza.

   $\frac{1}{8}(x)=1$

   Step 2 (a):

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

   Answer (a):

   $40 \text{ slices}$

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

   Sample Answer (b):

   $5\div\frac{1}{8}=40$