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Grace wants to bring a small wedge of cheese for the next 12 days, but there are three small rounds of cheddar cheese in Grace's refrigerator, That is to say, that Grace needs to buy cheese to fulfill this purpose, the small wedge of cheese that Grace needs are:


12-3=9

but we must represent this infraction, for this, we will take the 12 small wedges of cheese as a unit, which is formed by having the 12 portions.

That is, out of 12/12 portions, we only have 3/12, To do this we do subtraction and see how many we need in fractional form.


\begin{gathered} (12)/(12)=1 \\ (12)/(12)-(3)/(12)=(9)/(12) \end{gathered}

In conclusion, Grace need 9 portions i.e. 9/12

Now, that we know this fraction, this is a correct answer, however, we can simplify this fraction.


(9)/(12)=(3)/(4)

In conclusion, Grace needs 3/4 small wedge of cheese.

Note: the answer can be 9/12, but also its simplified form which corresponds to the same, this simplified form is 3/4.

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