Question

What is \[3/8\] of \[24\]? Can you show how you get the answer?

Answer 1

Hint:
In the given question, we have been asked to calculate a fraction ‘of’ an integer. We can easily solve this question if we just know the meaning of this word ‘of’. The word ‘of’ when used in mathematics between two numbers, means multiplication of the two numbers. So, we just need to multiply the two numbers, and we are going to get our answer.

Formula Used:
If we have been given to calculate \[\dfrac{m}{n}{\text{ }}of{\text{ }}k\], then, the answer to this can be written as:
\[\dfrac{m}{n} \times k = \dfrac{{mk}}{n}\]

Complete step by step solution:
In the given question, we have to calculate \[3/8\] of \[24\]. This word means multiplication.
Hence, \[3/8\] of \[24\] is equal to
\[\dfrac{3}{8} \times 24 = \dfrac{{72}}{8} = 9\]

Hence, \[\;\dfrac{3}{8}{\text{ }}of{\text{ 24}} = 9\]

Note:
In this question, we had been given an expression. In the expression, there were two numbers separated by a word – of. We had to calculate the value of the whole expression. To calculate the value of this expression, we only needed to know the meaning of the main word ‘of’. So, to calculate the answer of such questions, we only need to know the meaning of the main terms. Hence, knowing the definitions of such basic words is necessary because those are the words that help us get to the answer.