Question

Alex has a collection of sports cards. There are 10 cards in the collection, and 1/5 of them are hockey cards. Alex decides to double the amount of hockey cards in the collection. How many hockey cards are in the collection now? What fraction of the cards are hockey cards now?

Answer 1

If 1/5 of the cards are hockey cards, there are 2 hockey cards. if he wants to double that amount, he would multiply it by 2, so 2•2=4. The fraction of hockey cards is now is 2/5.