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Logan Bought 15 balloons. Four Fifths of the balloons are purple. how many Of the balloons are purple?

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12 balloons are purple 4/5 5 divided by 15 = 3X4=12
User Arpan Buch
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Hello! You have to multiply it. You do this. Make the 15 into a fraction.

15 over 1. Or Fifteen one. Then you multiply. Let me show you.

15 4 60
----- x ------- = ---------
1 5 5

Next you divide it. And the answer is 12.

Hoped i helped!!



User Tobias Cudnik
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