Question

A pie was cut into 8 equal slices if Ruben ate 3/4 of the pie how many slices did he eat?

Answer 1

You can just set 3/4=X/8, when you multiply the 4 through you get 3=4x/8 which can be simplied to 3=x/2, multiply the 2 over and you have 6=x.

Answer 2

Ruben ate 6 pieces out of 8.

Explanation:

We will understand 3/4 first. If we divide a pie into 4 pieces then Ruben ate 3 pieces of pie.

Further If we divide these 4 and 3 pieces to 8 and 6 then Ruben will eat 6 pieces out of 8.

Now we will show this mathematically

`(3)/(4)=(3)/(4)* (2)/(2)=(3*2)/(4*2)=(6)/(8)`

Ruben ate 6 pieces out of 8.