You're cooking a recipe that requires 3/5 cup of flour, but you only want to use 1/3 of the recipe. What is the amount of flour you need

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Isabelle Mccann

14 January, 22:44

You're cooking a recipe that requires 3/5 cup of flour, but you only want to use 1/3 of the recipe. What is the amount of flour you need

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Reagan Chang · Answer 1

If you want to find a fraction of something, multiply that amount by the fraction.

So to find 1/3 of 3/5, multiply the two fractions together

(3/5) (1/3) = 3/15 or 1/5

So 1/3 of 3/5 is 3/15, or if you simply it, 1/5