Mrs Robin planted one half of the garden with vegetables and the other with flowers. 1/3 of the vegetable is lettuce. How much of the entire garden is lettuce?

Question

Garden divided in half. flowers and vegetables. Lettuce takes up 1/3 of the vegetable half. How much of the entire garden is planted in lettuce

Answer 1

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Vegetables are one half of the whole garden

Lettuce is one third of the vegetable part

 

OF means MULTIPLY

 

SO lettuce is 1/3 * 1/2 = 1/6 of the whole garden.