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

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-20T12:04:22

$g = \frac{7}{16}$ $g = 7/16$

We can rewrite this problem as:

What is $\frac{1}{2}$ $1/2$ of $\frac{7}{8}$ $7/8$ 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 $g$ $g$ .

So, in mathematical terms we can rewrite this as:

$g = \frac{1}{2} \times \frac{7}{8}$ $g = 1/2 xx 7/8$

$g = \frac{1 \times 7}{2 \times 8}$ $g = (1 xx 7)/(2 xx 8)$

$g = \frac{7}{16}$ $g = 7/16$