Question

Ethen has 24 marbles. He gives 2/8 of his collection to his sister Ruby. How many marbles does Ruby get?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

2/8 * 24 = 1/4 * 24 = 6

Answer 3

[AI-generated answer — Explain Bot]

To find out how many marbles Ruby gets, we need to determine the fraction of Ethen's marbles that he gives to her.

Ethen gives 2/8 of his marbles to Ruby. To simplify this fraction, we can divide both the numerator (2) and the denominator (8) by their greatest common divisor, which is 2.

When we divide 2 by 2, we get 1, and when we divide 8 by 2, we get 4. Therefore, the fraction 2/8 is equivalent to 1/4.

Now that we know Ethen gives 1/4 of his marbles to Ruby, we can find out how many marbles she gets by multiplying this fraction by his total number of marbles.

24 * 1/4 = 6

Ruby gets 6 marbles.