What does a quarter of 12 mean?

Answer 1

You start of with a whole pie and if you cut in two equal pieces you have two half pies.

If you cut the two half pie pieces in half you end up with 4 equal pieces of the original pie and these are called quarters.

So to get a half you divide by 2

To get a quarter you divide by 4

Thus

12/4 = 3

or

4*3=12

Thus a quarter of 12 is 3.