Question

There are 600g of butter. 2/15 of the butter was used to cook dinner. How many grams of butter were used?

a) 40g
b) 80g
c) 160g
d) 80g

Answer 1

To find out how many grams of butter were used, multiply the total amount of butter by the fraction used. In this case, the answer is 80 grams.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many grams of butter were used, we need to multiply the total amount of butter by the fraction representing the amount used. The fraction used is 2/15.

So, we can calculate it as:

1. Multiply the total amount of butter (600g) by the numerator of the fraction used (2): 600g * 2 = 1200g.
2. Divide the result by the denominator of the fraction used (15): 1200g ÷ 15 = 80g.

Therefore, 80 grams of butter were used.