Question

Nathan went down to Candy World and bought pounds of lemon drops for him, Darren, and Mitchel to take on a week long field trip. Nathan gave of the lemon drops to Darren, and Darren gave of his lemon drops to Mitchel.

Mitchel wanted to know how many pounds of lemon drops he received.

Nathan told him that he needed to start with the initial amount, multiply by the fraction that Darren received, and then multiply the result by the fraction of Darren's that he received, that is to simplify the expression .

Darren told him that he needed to find the fraction of the whole amount by

Answer 1

multiplying

Answer 2

help pleas? :P