Your dogs bowl is 3/4 full. After taking a drink the water bowl is 1/3 full. What fraction of the bowl did your dog drink?
3/4 - 1/3 = 9/12 - 4/12 = 5/12
To find the fraction of the bowl that the dog drank, we need to determine how much water was in the bowl before and after the dog took a drink.
The dog's bowl was initially 3/4 full, which we can represent as the fraction 3/4. After taking a drink, the water level reduced to 1/3 full, or the fraction 1/3.
To find out how much water the dog drank, we need to find the difference between these two fractions.
We can subtract 1/3 from 3/4:
3/4 - 1/3 = (3 * 3)/(4 * 3) - (1 * 4)/(3 * 4)
= 9/12 - 4/12
= 5/12
Therefore, the dog drank 5/12 of the bowl.