Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake.
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|dw:1452847776962:dw| ok first we cut the cake in half
ok
then ?
dude just show me full steps. no need diagrams
detailed ans with statements.
next we need to cut one of the halves into equal pieces so that we have a total of 7 pieces... So, how many pieces do we need to cut that half into??? (i need the diagram to think)
six
dude with statements
dude i know that the ans is 240g but i need u to show me all the steps with statements
|dw:1452848108853:dw| correct
next ?
so the small piece is 1/6th of 1/2 of the cake .... or 1/12th
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so we need to do 20 times twelve
now show me the full detailed ans with steps
without diagrams
with statements too
Aruna cut a cake into two halves. Then she cut one of the halves into 6 equal pieces to get a total of 7 pieces. Each small piece is \(\frac16 \times \frac12= \frac 1 {12}\) of the whole. If \(\frac 1 {12}\)th of the cake weighs 20 g, The whole cake will weigh \(20 \times 12= 240\) g
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