Dotti and bud bought two identical watermelons. dotti cut her watermelon into 3 pieces and ate 2 of the pieces. dud cut his watermelon into 9 pieces, but ate the exact same amount of watermelon as dotti. how many of 9 pieces must he have eaten of hes watermelon? explain your answer.

Bus must have eaten 6 pieces of his watermelon.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have been given that  Dotti and Bud bought two identical watermelons. Dotti cut her watermelon into 3 pieces and ate 2 of the pieces. This means Dotti has eaten 2/3 of his watermelon.

Bud cut his watermelon into 9 pieces, but ate the exact same amount of watermelon as Dotti.

We will use proportions to solve our given problem as proportions states that two fractions are equivalent.

Upon substituting our given values in above proportion we will get,

Let us multiply both sides of our equation by 9.

Therefore, Bud must have eaten 6 pieces of his watermelon.

Let us cross check our answer by substituting 6 in our proportion as:

Hence, proved.

because 1.2 isnt half of 6 duh

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