You exercise for $3/4$ of an hour. You jump rope for $1/3$ of that time. In simplest form, what fraction of the hour do you spend jumping rope?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-25T15:26:50

You spend $1/4$ of the hour jumping rope.

The question states that $1/3$ of $3/4$ of an hour is spent jumping rope.

To find this fraction, multiply $3/4$ by $1/3$ .

$3/4*1/3=3/12=1/4$

Another way to look at the question is this:

$3/4=1/4+1/4+1/4$

So one third of $3/4$ is $1/4$

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