What is three fourth times twelve?

Answer 1

In order to multiply these two numbers, we should first make 12 into a fraction by putting it over the number 1, since dividing by 1 doesn't change the value. (Note: Please ignore the periods, they are there just to keep the numbers spaced apart since Answers.com doesn't let me do that with regular spaces)

3.....12

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4......1

When you multiply fractions, you ALWAYS multiply the top times the top and the bottom times the bottom (Note: the top is the numerator and the bottom is the denominator of the fraction). So, doing that we get:

36

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4

But we can simplify this! 36 is divisible by 4, so when we divide 36 by 4 we get 9 as our final answer.