Mina puts 12 pieces of fruit in a bowl 1/4 of the foot pieces are apples do you want a fraction strips and show how many apple pieces are in the bowl
Are you saying that 1/4 of the 12 fruits in the bowl are apples ?
Sure! To find the fraction of apple pieces in the bowl, we first need to determine how many pieces of the 12 fruits are apples.
Given that 1/4 of the fruit pieces are apples, we can find the number of apple pieces by multiplying the total number of fruit pieces (12) by the fraction 1/4.
To visualize this calculation, we can use fraction strips. Each strip will represent one fruit piece.
First, let's divide the fraction strips into four equal parts to represent quarters.
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The whole strip represents the total number of fruit pieces, which is 12.
Now, let's shade in one of the four parts to represent the apples.
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As we can see, one out of four parts is shaded. This means that 1/4 of the fruit pieces are apples.
To find the number of apple pieces in the bowl, we multiply the total number of fruit pieces (12) by the fraction 1/4:
12 * 1/4 = 12/4 = 3
Therefore, Mina has 3 apple pieces in the bowl.