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There are ten cookies in the cookie jar. 3 are Oreos. 2 are peanut butter cookies. 4 are chocolate chip cookies, 1 is a sugar cookie. What fraction of the cookies are peanut butter cookies?​

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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.

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