Question

There was 1/2. Of a cake left over from Hannah’s birthday party when she and her sister came home from school the next day they ate 2/3 of the left over cake for a snak. How much of the whole cake did the girls eat

Answer 1

The girls ate 1/6 of the whole cake.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much of the whole cake the girls ate, we need to calculate the fraction of the cake that was left after Hannah's birthday party. Given that 1/2 of the cake was left over, we can represent this as 1/2.

The girls then ate 2/3 of the leftover cake for a snack. We can represent this as (2/3 * 1/2), which simplifies to 2/6.

To find out how much of the whole cake the girls ate, we can calculate (1/2 - 2/6). This simplifies to (3/6 - 2/6), which equals 1/6.

Therefore, the girls ate 1/6 of the whole cake.

Answer 2

1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

This problem would be 1/2 x 2/3. The answer would be 1x2 over 2x3.