Stella brought 3/8 of a pound of grapes and ate 1/3 of the grapes.How muchdid she eat?
1/3 of 3 is 1, so 1/3 of 3/8 is ?
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To find out how much Stella ate, we need to multiply the fraction of the grapes she ate (1/3) by the total weight of the grapes she brought (3/8 pound).
We can perform the multiplication as follows:
(1/3) x (3/8)
To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators (top numbers) together to get the new numerator, and multiply the denominators (bottom numbers) together to get the new denominator. So, we have:
1 x 3 = 3 (numerator)
3 x 8 = 24 (denominator)
Therefore, Stella ate 3/24 pounds of grapes.
We can simplify this fraction by dividing both the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 3 in this case. So, we have:
3/24 รท 3/3 = 1/8
Therefore, Stella ate 1/8 pound of grapes.