Question

Mattt has `2/3` yard of fishing line. He uses `3/8` of the line to make fishing knots. How much did Matt use to make fishing knots?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

We can rewrite this as:

What is `3/8` of `2/3` yards?

In this type of question the word "of" means to multiply:

`3/8 xx 2/3"yds" = (3 xx 2)/(8 xx 3)"yds" = (color(red)(cancel(color(black)(3)))1 xx color(blue)(cancel(color(black)(2)))1)/(color(blue)(cancel(color(black)(8)))4 xx color(red)(cancel(color(black)(3)))1)"yds" = 1/4"yds"`

Matt used `1/4` yards of fishing line to make knots.