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Mindy buys 12 cupcake. Nine of the cupcake have chocolate frosting and the resy have vanilla frosting. What fraction of the cupcakes have vanilla frosting.

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If there are 12, and nine have chocolate, subtract 9 from 12. You will get 3, so you will get 3/12.
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Answer: 9/12 or 3/4 are chocolate. 3/12 or 1/4 are vanilla


Explanation:

If there are 12 cupcakes and 9 are chocolate that leaves 3 to be vanilla . To reduce the fractions you just have to find a smaller number they have in common. in this case its 4

I hope this helped good luck on your test or homework :)

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