Question

Jared uses 24 tiles to cover the top of his desk of the 24 tiles 3/8 are blue how many of the tiles are blue

Answer 1

To key to this question is the word "of". So you can translate to, 3/8 of 24. "Of" will always be to multiply, so the solution is

24 * 3/8= 9

So nine tiles are blue.