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In a cookie jar, ¼ of the cookies are chocolate chip and ½ of the rest are peanut

butter. What fraction of all the cookies are peanut butter?

User Sponce
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Answer:the answer is 1/4

Explanation:

User Impurity
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Answer:

3/8

Explanation:

We already know that 3/4 of the cookies are not chocolate chips, and half of those remaining cookies are peanut butter. We have to divide the fraction 3/4 in half.

We would actually write it as "3/4 * 1/2" because 1/2 is the reciprocal (fraction flipped upside-down) of 2 (which is what we would've divided it by to get halves). 3/4 * 1/2 = 3/8

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