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In a cookie jar, 1/5 of the cookies are chocolate chip and 1/2 or the rest a peanut butter. What fraction of all the cookies is peanut butter?

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If 1/5 are chocolate chip, then 4/5 are not chocolate chip because 1 - 1/5 = 4/5. Half of 4/5 are peanut butter. Half of 4/5 is 2/5, so 2/5 of the cookies are peanut butter.

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