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ACT Aspire Math: Finding a Fraction of a Fraction
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David is baking cookies for the annual Manly Men Who Bake Contest. He has of a cup of sugar in a container. He pours of the sugar into the mixing...

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David is baking cookies for the annual Manly Men Who Bake Contest. He has of a cup of sugar in a container. He pours of the sugar into the mixing bowl. How many cups of sugar does the mixing bowl contain?


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All right More drills for aspiring math people Here we

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go David is baking cookies for the annual manly men

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who bake contest You have been there done that He

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has three fourths of a cop of sugar in a

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container He pours an eighth of the sugar into the

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mixing bowl How many cups of sugar does the mixing

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bowl contained Ooh that's a lot of fraction in chair

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Yeah well here's a helpful hint for life and for

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baking Finding the fraction of value means multiplying the fraction

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by the value like of means times the problems asking

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for an eighth of three force So let's give that

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a shot So one eight times three forces the three

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thirty seconds right Multiplying fractions is a lot more fun

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than adding them right So that's it That's pretty easy

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Three over thirty two So that's the answer It's just 00:00:54.949 --> [endTime] eat

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