at a neighborhood park 1/3 of the are is to be used for a new playground. Swings will be placed on 1/4 of the area of the playground. Determine what fraction of the park will be swings

Answer 1

Swings would then be 1/4 of the 1/3. To figure out what that is, you could divide the 1/3 into 4 equal pieces and then take one of those pieces. Or, the easy way, is to multiply 1/3 by 1/4. To multiply fractions, you just multiply straight across like this:

So the answer is 1/12 of the park will be swings