Question

Joe has 5 rabbit one fifth is white how many rabbit are white?

Answer 1

If Joe has 5 rabbits and 1/5 of those rabbits are white, then we just have to multiply...


`(1)/(5) * 5`

5 can be transformed into a fraction by simply putting a 1 below it, so the problem looks like this:


`(1)/(5) * (5)/(1)`

Now we just multiply the numerators together and then multiply the denominators together. Numerators are the numbers on the top of fractions and denominators are on the bottoms.


`(1)/(5) * (5)/(1) = (5*1)/(1*5)`

Since any number times 1 equals the same number, the fraction now looks like this:


`(5)/(5)`

Any number divided by itself is 1, so we end up with


`(5)/(5) = 1`

If Joe has 5 rabbits and 1/5 of them is white, then 1 of Joe's rabbits is white.
Hope that helped =)