Question

Mrs. Myane had 3/5 kg of sugar. She used 1/4 of it to make fruit pies. How much sugar did she use to make the fruit pies?

Answer 1

3/20

Explanation:

What if Mrs. Myane used a similar approach to the problem, but used simpler numbers? Consider this:

Mrs. Myane had 8 kg of sugar. She used 1/4 of it to make fruit pies. How much sugar did she use to make the fruit pies?

We can see that all we need to do here is divide by four or multiply 1/4. Using the same technique, we can figure out that (in the original problem) Mrs. Myane can create an expression similar to this:

(3/5)*(1/4)

This expression can work too: (3/5) ÷ 4

Following that, we get (3/20).

Good luck and keep studying! Apologies for the late reply. I hope it still helps!