Karen raked #3/5# of the yard. Minni raked #1/3# of the amount Karen raked. How much of the yard did Minni rake?

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Mark Kononov
Nov 9, 2015

Minni raked #1/5# of the yard.

Explanation:

One way to answer this problem is to solve it using decimals. #3/5# turns in 0.60. It's easy to know what a third of 0.60 is, since it would be 0.20. We can then convert 0.20 into #2/10# or #1/5#.

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