Question

On the first day of Middle School, the students ate 3/4 of the available ice cream. of the ice cream the students ate, 2/5 of it was fudge bars. What fraction of the available ice cream was fudge bars?

Answer 1

3/10

Step-by-step explanation:

Amount of icecream they ate = 3/4

Fraction of fudge bars = 2/5

Fraction of the available ice cream was fudge bars = 2/5 of 3/4

`\begin{gathered} of\text{ means multiplication} \\ (2)/(5)*(3)/(4) \end{gathered}`
`\begin{gathered} =(6)/(20) \\ =(3)/(10) \end{gathered}`

Fraction of the available ice cream that was fudge bars = 3/10