You told your friend you could eat 1/3 a large pizza. if you only ate 3/5 of what you said you could, how much pizza did you eat?

1/5

Step-by-step explanation:

If you only eat 3/5 of 1/3, you ate 3/5 × 1/3.  Multiply fractions straight across the top and straight across the bottom to get 3/15.  That reduces down to 1/5.  So you ate 1/5 of the large pizza.

step-by-step explanation:

the ratio of red paint to blue paint is always 9/7. that means that, whatever x's value, (4x+12)/(4x-4) has that same ratio. so, set up an equation and cross-multiply to solve for x:

9/7 = (4x+12)/(4x-4)

9(4x-4) = 7(4x+12)

36x - 36 = 28x + 84

8x - 36 = 84

8x = 120

x = 15