SOLUTION: a restaurant had 4 cakes, each cut into tenths. by noon, 4/5 of all the pieces were sold. how many pieces of cake where sold by noon

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Question 988936: a restaurant had 4 cakes, each cut into tenths. by noon, 4/5 of all the pieces were sold. how many pieces of cake where sold by noon
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Answer by macston(5194) About Me  (Show Source):
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%284%2F5%29%284%2A10%29=32
ANSWER: 32 pieces of cake were sold by noon.

Answer by algebrahouse.com(1659) About Me  (Show Source):
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4 cakes cut into tenths would be 40 pieces of cake.

4/5 were sold by noon, that is:
(4/5) x 40 {multiplied fraction that were sold by total number of pieces}
= 32

32 pieces were sold by noon

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