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At a party, if 1/5 of one sheet

cake is uneaten and Tom eats
1/6 of the uneaten cake, what
fraction of the original cake
did Tom eat?

User Steve Beer
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Answer:

Explanation:

He eats 1/6 or 1/5 of the original cake.

All you need to do to get the answer is multiply the denominators.

1/5 * 1/6 = 1/30

If there was something in the numerators. you would multiply them too.

So suppose the two fractions were 3/5 and 2/7

The answer would be 3 * 2 / 5 * 7 = 6 / 35

General rule

When multiplying two fractions, multiply numerator * numerator / (denominator * denominator).

User Brittnay
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