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At the grocery store 1/5 of the groceries are produce. Of the produce 2/3 is vegetables. What fraction of the groceries in the grocery store are vegetables?

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the answer is 0.5 /5 because have of the vegetable products is 2/so it is from 0.5
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Well if 1/5 of the groceries are produce and 2/3 of the produce is veggies... then to find how much of the total groceries are veggies we have to find 2/3 of 1/5.

In math
"of" means ×
"is" means =

2/3 of 1/5 is

2/3 × 1/5 = 2/15

2/15 of the groceries are veggies
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