DLO Maths

Page 37 Understanding Fractions

(C) cut the cake 

There are 36 chocolate evenly spread around the edge of the cake how many chocolates are there in three quarters of the cake?

Given answer:27 

I cut the cake in quarters And then counted 3 of the quarters Then the answer that I got was 27.

B)   How many chocolates are there on 5 sixths of the cake.

     Given Answer:30

How Did you work it out?: I cut the cake into Sixths instead of quarters Then I counted 5 of the 6th that we're on the cake. 

C) One Fifth of the cake has 6 chocolates how many chocolates on the whole cake. 

Given answer: 30

How I worked it out: There are six Chocolates on each fifth There are 5 fiths in a whole cake So if you times 5 x 6 = 30 so 30 is your answer 

D) 3/8 of the cake have 9 chocolates how many chocolates are on the whole cake  ?

Given Answer:24

How I worked it out: I added another slice to the cake so there was a half. Then timed the number that I got by 2 . ( 12 +  12= 24 )