The Eatery Restaurant has 200 tables. On a recent evening, there were reservations for fraction 1/10 of the tables. How many tables were reserved?
In word problems, you can be pretty sure that "of" means times.
1/2 of 6 is the same as 1/2 * 6 = 3
So, can you multiply 1/10 by 200?
To find out how many tables were reserved, we need to multiply the total number of tables (200) by the fraction of tables reserved, which is 1/10.
To do this, we can multiply the numerator (1) by the total number of tables (200), and then divide the result by the denominator (10):
1/10 * 200 = 1 * 200 / 10 = 200 / 10 = 20
Therefore, 20 tables were reserved at The Eatery Restaurant on that evening.