IXL | Multiply fractions and mixed numbers: word problems

Yesterday, Rudy's Snack Shack went through 1/3 of a bottle of ketchup. If they used 1/3 as much mustard as ketchup, how many bottles of mustard did they go through?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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Ed had 2/3 of an apple pie. He gave 2/3 of what he had to his friend Mary. What fraction of the whole pie did Mary get?

Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

of the pie

solution

Mary got 2/3 of 2/3 of the pie.

Multiply the numerators and multiply the denominators.

2 × 2

3 × 3

Mary got 4/9 of the pie.

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Lesson: Multiplying fractions

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