Rodrigo's fish bowl holds 7/8 gallon of water. It is 1/2 full now. How much water is in it?

1 Answer
Dec 20, 2016

g = 7/16g=716

Explanation:

We can rewrite this problem as:

What is 1/212 of 7/878 gallons of water?

When dealing with fractions the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".

We can also let the answer we are looking for be gg.

So, in mathematical terms we can rewrite this as:

g = 1/2 xx 7/8g=12×78

g = (1 xx 7)/(2 xx 8)g=1×72×8

g = 7/16g=716