Tim ate some chocolate cake for an afternoon snack He left 3/4 of the cake. If his parents ate 1/3 of the remaining cake for dinner, write a multplication problem to represent how much cake tims parentd ate
(1/3) * (3/4) =
1/3 of 3/4= 1/3*3/4=3/12=1/4
To represent how much cake Tim's parents ate, we can start by calculating the amount of cake Tim had left after his afternoon snack.
Tim left 3/4 of the cake, which means he had 1 - 3/4 = 1/4 of the cake remaining.
Next, we need to calculate the amount of cake Tim's parents ate, which is 1/3 of the remaining cake.
To write a multiplication problem to represent this, we can multiply the fraction representing the remaining cake by the fraction representing the portion Tim's parents ate.
So the multiplication problem would be:
(1/4) x (1/3) = ?
To solve this multiplication problem, we multiply the numerators together (1 x 1) = 1 and then multiply the denominators (4 x 3) = 12.
So the fraction representing how much cake Tim's parents ate is 1/12.