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Lyles bought a pack of 12 cookies. One-third of the cookies are peanut butter. How many of the cookies in the pack are peanut butter?

Lyles bought a pack of 12 cookies. One-third of the cookies are peanut butter. How many of the cookies in the pack are peanut butter?
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Lyles bought a pack of 12 cookies. One-third of the cookies are peanut butter. How many of the cookies in the pack are peanut butter?

User Harish Kommuri
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Hi! :)

So since you're trying to find
(1)/(3) of 12, you would just need to divide 12 by 3. The answer to this would be that 4 of the cookies were peanut butter.

Hope this helps!
User Mattia Ruggiero
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