In a cookie jar,
1
5
of the cookies are chocolate chip and
1
2
of the rest are peanut butter. What fraction of all the cookies is peanut butter?
Which tape diagram shows the cookies that are chocolate chip?

All cookies
Chocolate
chip

All cookies
Chocolate
chip

All cookies
Chocolate
chip
Excellent!
Which tape diagram shows the cookies that are peanut butter?

All cookies
Chocolate
chip
Peanut
butter

All cookies
Chocolate
chip
Peanut
butter

All cookies
Chocolate
chip
Peanut
butter
Good work!
Use the tape diagram to solve.

Respuesta :

well, a WHOLE is 1, which we can split in many fractions, say 5/5, 10/10 or 999/999 and so on.

we know 1/5 of the jar is chocolate chip, and there's the rest, well, the Whole jar in 5ths have to be 5/5, if we take away 1/5 from 5/5, the "rest" is 5/5 - 1/5 = 4/5.

now, we also know that 1/2 of the "rest" is peanut butter, or namely that 1/2 of 4/5 is peanut butter, how much will that be?  let's divide 4/5 by 2

[tex]\cfrac{4}{5}\div 2\implies \cfrac{4}{5}\div \cfrac{2}{1}\implies \cfrac{4}{5}\cdot \cfrac{1}{2}\implies \cfrac{4}{10}\implies \cfrac{2}{5}[/tex]