As the banana is 7 inches long and each piece is 1/2 inches you divide 7 into 1/2 to find how many slices of banana can be cut:
Division of fractions:
[tex]\frac{\frac{a}{b}}{\frac{c}{d}}=\frac{a\cdot d}{b\cdot c}[/tex]Yo have: 7/1 divided into 1/2:
[tex]\frac{\frac{7}{1}}{\frac{1}{2}}=\frac{7\cdot2}{1\cdot1}=14[/tex]Then, in a banana of 7inches you can cut 14 slices of 1/2inch