Question

Tasty Things Bakery recently sold 20 desserts, including 8 brownies. Considering this data, how many of the next 5 desserts sold should you expect to be brownies?

Answer 1

Answer:

About 2 of their next 5 deserts sold would be brownies.

Let's represent this by fractions. If 8 out of the 20 desserts they sold were brownies, that would make the fraction 8/20 represent how many brownies were sold.

Now if you reduce this fraction, you get 2/5, which tells about how many brownies will be sold in the next 5 brownies judging by the other data.