Question

Rita has 6 cups of frosting. She plans to use 2/3 of it to decorate cakes. How many cups of frosting will rita use to decorate cake?

Answer 1

She's going to use 2/3 of the frosting(6 cups) to decorate cakes. 'of' means multiplication. So we can multiply to figure it out:

$\sf\dfrac{2}{3}\times 6$

$\sf\dfrac{12}{3}$

$\sf\boxed{\sf 4}$

So Rita will use 4 cups of frosting to decorate cakes.