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a bottle of soda had 4 and 2/7 of the daily re commended sugar. if you were to drink 1/2 of the bottle. how much of the daily recommended sugar would you have drank

User Desert Ice
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You would have drank 2 and 1/7 of the daily sugar.
User Andlabs
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well this is easyyy:) you just need to multiply 4 and 2/7 by 1/2
buttt before we set up our question lets get 4 and 2/7 as an improper fraction
2
4 ----
7
we do that by multipying the 4 and 7 and then adding 2 soo lets do that
4 x 7 = 28
28 + 2 = 30
look we have our numerator!! (the top number)
and we dont have to do anything to the numerator just keep it the same as 7 :) lets look at our new improper fraction

30
------
7
see now we can set up our problem:)

30 1
------ x -----
7 2
now all we do is multiply across:)

30 1 = 30 x 1 = 30
------ x -----
7 2 = 7 x 2 = 14
here is our new fraction

30
------
14
wait lets simplify it by dividing each number by 2

30 ÷ 2 = 15
------
14 ÷ 2 = 7
ahh this is better here is our simpified fraction

15
-------
7
or as a decimal it is 2.142857143
either one is the correct answer:)
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