If you’re aged 19+ and don’t have GCSE maths grade C (or equivalent), Multiply is available to you. Multiply offers easy access to free numeracy courses to help build your confidence with numbers or gain a qualification.
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If you’re aged 19+ and don’t have GCSE maths grade C (or equivalent), Multiply is available to you. Multiply offers easy access to free numeracy courses to help build your confidence with numbers or gain a qualification.
Find out moreWe asked you: if your recipe calls for 2/3 cup of milk, and you need to double it, how many cups do you need?
Step 1
To set this problem up you can turn the number you want to multiply your fraction by, in this case two, into a fraction. This
would be 2/1 because 2 ÷ 1 = 2. We can now look at the problem like this: 2/3 x 2/1
Step 2
Next, you can make it into one fraction by multiplying the numerators together first (2 x 2 = 4) and then the denominators together (3 x 1 = 3). This should give you 4/3.
Step 3
Finally, 4/3 can be simplified to give the answer of 1 1/3
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