1 dozen eggs divided by 3 is 4 eggs. But 1 dozen eggs is not a whole/unity, it is 12 whole eggs. Dividing 1 egg in 3 results in shell, white, and yolk. Pie, like scrambled eggs, is not practically divisible in the way a whole egg is divisible, but if you disagree, show me .3333 (bar) of a dozen scrambled eggs or a piece of pie.
No.
1 dozen divided into 3 equal parts means each part is ~.333… dozen, not 4 eggs.
It is an entirely different calculation to say 12 eggs divided into 3 equal parts means each part is 4 eggs.
Notice that 3 x 4 = 12, but 3 x .333… does NOT equal 1.0
There are two different equations:
1 divided by 3 = .333…
12 divided by 3 = 4
3 x 4 = 12, so that confirms that 12 can be divided into 3 equal parts of 4.
3 x .333… = 0.999…, so that confirms that 1 dozen CAN’T be divided into 3 equal parts, because the 3 parts do NOT add up to 1.0.
1 dozen is a quantity of 1 and a unit of measure of “dozen.” It is the same thing as saying 1 mile, you have a quantity of 1 and a unit of measure of mile.
If you split 1 mile into 2 equal parts, the distance for each part is .5 mile, not 880 yards.
Two different equations:
1/2 = .5
1760/2 = 880
We are using the unit of measure mile, and there is 1 of them not 1760 of them so you end up with 2 parts of .5, not 2 parts of 880.
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Motor Daddy… always being awkward about dividing a dozen.
Imperial maths differs from Metric maths, which is not an unknown known… but as you all were.
Imperial math… that’s like 1 divided by 3 except after c, right?
Ok, fine. But I’m only eating one piece of pie that is .3…, one that is .6…, & one that is .9…, for a total of .18… (a whole pie) and THAT is FINAL! Don’t even ask for a piece, cuz…
I’ve said my piece & counted to 3.
Nope.
That is 1.8 pies not 1 whole pie.
When you eat the .3 piece that is 30% of a pie.
When you eat the .6 piece that is 60% of a pie.
When you eat the .9 piece that is 90% of a pie.
Total pies eaten is 1.8 pies.
How much is left, you ask?
That depends how many pies you started with, and if someone else ate some pie or not.
If you started with 2 whole pies, that is 200%. Since you ate 180% then there is only a .2 piece left, which is the remaining 20% of 1 pie. 
1 group of three pies divided into 3 equal parts equals 1 pie.
1 dozen eggs divided into 2 equals parts equals 6 eggs.
1 meter divided in 2 equal parts equals 50 centimeters.
Show me how 1 divided by 3 equals 1. Show me your math.
What you are saying is 1/3=1
If you check your work you end up showing how 3 x 1 = 3
We are not talking about 3 x 1 = 3, or 3 divided by 3 = 1. We are talking about 1 divided by 3 not 3 divided by 3.
I don’t have to because that’s not what I’m saying. That’s your own invention.
“1 meter divided by 2 equals 50 centimeters” is not equivalent to “1 divided by 2 equals 50”. We’re dividing “1 meter” by “2” to get “50 centimeters”. We are NOT dividing “1” by “2” to get “50”.
Interchangeability, or the ability to do unit conversions, more relevant than ever!
Centimeters has nothing to do with dividing 1 meter into 2 equal parts. The math is 1/2=.5 and .5 x 2 = 1. There is no “50” part of that math.
Why don’t you just say 1 meter divided by 2 equals 500 millimeters?? Why not claim 1 meter divided by 2 equals 19.6850 inches??? How about you just write the fraction 1/2=19.6850 because that is what you are claiming??
Why can’t you understand that we are not dividing 100 into 2 equal parts we are dividing 1 into 2 equal parts?
You know the difference between 1/2=.5 and 100/2=50, right?
Let’s do this by degrees. 360 degrees of pie. 12 eggs stationed around the edges of the pie at the hour mark as if it were a clock.
The piece from 12 to 4 is 120 degrees, or .3333…
The piece from 4 to 8 is 120 degrees, or .6666…
The piece from 8 to 12 is 120 degrees, or .9999…
So when you say 1.8… …you’re cramming a whole nuther piece into an already whole pie.
That ain’t gonna fit. We’re not doing 4, we’re doing 3. The 4 was just in your imagination.
If you want to do 4, make each piece 90 degrees & forget the eggs either way, but. That ain’t gonna be pie. We square?
So you’re saying 360 degrees is .999… hours?
So 180 degrees is .4995 hours?
You are the one that claimed you ate 3 pieces that was 1.8 total. Did you eat 180% of 1 whole pie?
180 degrees is high noon.
Twice that is midnight.
The sun does what it wants… being the… fractional thingy.
Anyway this game is stupid.
So which is it, is 360 degrees 1.0 hour (1 whole hour) or is 360 degrees 99.999…% of 1 whole hour?
Your BS not adding up?
I hate it when that happens.
You are not getting it, fellow.
“1 group of three pies” divided by “3” is “1 pie”. But it is also “1/3 groups of three pies”. So “1 pie” and “1/3 group of three pies” are equivalent expressions. That’s the point. The point is to show you a real world example of “1/3”. The number of groups of three pies in a single pie is 1/3 and that is a real world example of 1/3. It’s a proof that 1/3 exists. Base-10 notation and long division cannot change that fact.
Noone is claiming that 1 divided by 3 is 1. That’s your own invention.
And noone is trying to divide 3 into 3 equal parts. That, again, is your own invention.
I’m taking “1 group of three pies” and dividing it into “3” equal parts. That’s what I’m actually doing. And the result of that is both “1 pie” and “1/3 groups of three pies”. And I am doing that in order to show you a real world example of “1/3”. The universe has lots of numerical properties. One of them is the number of people alive. The value of that property at the present moment, we are told, is between 7 and 8 billions. There are many other numerical properties. For example, there is the average human height. In order to show you that 1/3 exists, all I have to do is show you a property of the universe that is numerical and that is 1/3. And that’s what I did. I told you that the number of trios ( i.e. groups of three people ) in any person of your choice is exactly 1/3; or rather, that the number of groups of pies in any pie of your own choice is exactly 1/3.
All you’re really doing is you’re complaining that I’m not using long division in order to calculate the base-10 representation of 1 divided by 3. And you’re doing so because you erroneously think that if a number cannot be represented in base-10 that it does not exist. That’s really all there is to it. You think that if we do not have a word for something that that something does not exist; that if we don’t have the word “horse” for horses that horses do not exist; that if we do not have a base-10 representation of 1/3 that 1/3 does not exist.
Where do you get off dividing a group of pies that share a single identity as the set of all pies in your group of 3 pies?
It’s your b.s. now.
There is no 3 pies, there is simply 1 group.
The division is to divide 1 group into fractions of a group.
You can not divide 1.0 into 3 parts of 1, that is impossible.
When you divide 1.0 into 3 parts the 3 parts need to add up to 1.0. 1+1+1=3.0, not 1.0, so the 3 parts can not be 1.0 each.