Question

Jake ate 1/6 of the cookies at the party if he ate 5 cookies how many cookies were there in all

Answer 1

If Jake ate 1/6 of the cookies at the party and we know he ate 5 cookies. We must find out how many cookies there are in all.

$\frac{1}{6} = \frac{5}{x}$

Now x here represents how many total cookies are at the party.

We have to simply find out what 1 was multiplied by to get 5.

We can do this by dividing.

5 ÷ 1 = 5

So the numerators (the top numbers) were multiplied by 5. We can do the same to the denominators (the bottom numbers) to get the total number of cookies.

Lets multiply.

6 x 5 = 30

So the total number of cookies is 30

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