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A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 3/4 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 3/8 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 3/4 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 3/8 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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Solution

To find out how many butter dishes the restaurant filled, we need to divide the total amount of butter by the amount of butter in each dish.

The total amount of butter is 3/4 of a kilogram and each dish contains 3/8 of a kilogram.

So, we divide 3/4 by 3/8.

To divide fractions, we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.

The reciprocal of 3/8 is 8/3.

So, we multiply 3/4 by 8/3.

(3/4) * (8/3) = 24/12 = 2

So, the restaurant filled 2 butter dishes.

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