Question

June is baking cupcakes for her birthday party. She has enough batter to make 16 chocolate cupcakes and 8 strawberry cupcakes. What fraction of the cupcakes is chocolate?

Answer 1

2/3 because 16 are chocolate and 8 are strawberry so you get 24 cupcakes in total which would give you your denominator and 16 would be your numerator because your trying to find the fraction of chocolate cupcakes so you have 16/24 you would simplify 8x2 is 16 and 8x3 is 24 then you have 2/3 as your answer. hope this helps