"You used 3/4 cups of sugar in the batch of brownies you made. Your friend then ate 1/6 of the batch of brownies you made. What fraction of a cup of sugar did your friend consume when they ate the brownies?" a. Solve this problem with the use of math drawings only. b. Solve this problem with the use of the standard algorithm only.
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To do this, we multiply the fraction of sugar used in the batch (3/4) by the fraction of the batch eaten by the friend (1/6). Using the standard algorithm for multiplying fractions, we multiply the numerators together and the denominators together: (3/4) * (1/6) Show more…
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