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Two fifths of the fish in grays fish tank are guppies. One fourth of the guppies are red. What fraction of the fish in grays tank are red guppies?

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I think it goes like this:
1/4 of 2/5= 2/20 or 1/10

It's asking what fraction are red guppies and it's telling us that 2/5 of the tank is made up of guppies and out of that 2/5, 1/4 of them are red. So you would have to figure out what 1/4 of 2/5 is to find out how many red guppies there are.
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it would be one fourth cause he tells you the fraction of how many guppies are red
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