Question

There are ten cookies in the cookie jar. 3 are Oreos. 2 are peanut butter cookies. 4 are chocolate chip cookies, 1 is a sugar cookie. What fraction of the cookies are peanut butter cookies?​

Answer 1

Answer:

If there's 10 cookies in the jar, and if 2 are peanut butter, the fraction for peanut butter cookies is 1/5, simplified.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

• 10 Cookies Total
• 3 are Oreo cookies
• 2 are peanut butter cookies
• 4 are chocolate chip cookies
• 1 is a sugar cookie

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2 of the cookies are peanut butter, and there's 10 cookies total.

As a fraction, the peanut butter cookies are represented as:

2/10.

2/10 represents 2 peanut butter cookies out of 10 cookies altogether.

Simplify:

2/10 can be simplified by dividing both numerator and denominator by 2:

Quotient: 1/5.

1/5 is your answer.

Answer 2

Answer:

3/8

Step-by-step explanation:

We already know that 3/4 of the cookies are not chocolate chips, and half of those remaining cookies are peanut butter. We have to divide the fraction 3/4 in half.

We would actually write it as "3/4 * 1/2" because 1/2 is the reciprocal (fraction flipped upside-down) of 2 (which is what we would've divided it by to get halves). 3/4 * 1/2 = 3/8

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