A certain recipe asks for #6/7# cup of granola. How much is needed to make #1/7# of the recipe?
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Mar 6, 2018
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Explanation:
We can reword this problem as:
What is 1/7 of 6/7 cups?
In this context the word "of" means "the product of" or "times" or "multiplied by".
We can write the question in algebraic terms as the expression:
To multiply fractions you multiply the numerators over the denominators multiplied:
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