Answer:
If there's 10 cookies in the jar, and if 2 are peanut butter, the fraction for peanut butter cookies is 1/5, simplified.
Explanation:
Given:
- 10 Cookies Total
- 3 are Oreo cookies
- 2 are peanut butter cookies
- 4 are chocolate chip cookies
- 1 is a sugar cookie
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2 of the cookies are peanut butter, and there's 10 cookies total.
As a fraction, the peanut butter cookies are represented as:
2/10.
2/10 represents 2 peanut butter cookies out of 10 cookies altogether.
Simplify:
2/10 can be simplified by dividing both numerator and denominator by 2:
Quotient: 1/5.
1/5 is your answer.