SOLUTION: Your mom purchased the vanilla you need to use for the cookies in increments of 9/10's teaspoons containers. She told you to separate one of the vanilla containers into 6 small pi

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Question 1022791: Your mom purchased the vanilla you need to use for the cookies in increments of 9/10's teaspoons containers. She told you to separate one of the vanilla containers into 6 small piles. How much of a fraction would be in each pile?
My daughter is having trouble with this one and to be honest so am I.
Thanks!
Found 2 solutions by LinnW, MathTherapy:
Answer by LinnW(1048)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One container contains 9/10 teaspoon
If we divide 9/10 by 6 we will have what we want.
dividing 9/10 by is the same as


Muliply the numerator and denominator by 1/3
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Answer by MathTherapy(10555)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Your mom purchased the vanilla you need to use for the cookies in increments of 9/10's teaspoons containers. She told you to separate one of the vanilla containers into 6 small piles. How much of a fraction would be in each pile?
My daughter is having trouble with this one and to be honest so am I.
Thanks!
One of the -teaspoon containers is DIVIDED into 6 piles,

so we get the fraction:  in each pile 

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