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In this activity, we'll look at how to find a fraction of a whole number.
If this sounds, complicated... don't panic! We'll go through the steps below and you'll see it's easier than it sounds.
STEP 1
To do this, we divide 15 by our denominator.
(Remember, this is the number that is on the bottom or down below our fraction line)
In this case, our denominator is 5 so we need to do the following division calculation:
15 ÷ 5 = 3
STEP 2
Let's look again at the original question.
If you said that we should multiply our answer by 2, you'd be correct!
3 × 2 = 6
There we go, the correct answer is 6.
Always remember to start off by working out what 1/5 is first, and then you can work the rest out from there!
Let's give this a go.
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