Jenny and Leslie made chocolate milk. Jenny used 1 3 glass of chocolate syrup. Leslie, whose glass is twice as large as Jenny's, used 1 12 glass of syrup. They decide to combine their drinks into a larger pitcher. What part of the combined mixture would be syrup? (Hint: Notice that there are three different wholes involved.)

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Answer:

  1/6

Step-by-step explanation:

Using Jenny's glass as the unit of volume, the total volume of syrup is apparently ...

  1/3 + 2(1/12) = 6/12 = 1/2 . . . Jenny's glass

The total volume of chocolate milk is ...

  1 + 2 = 3 . . . . . . . . . . . times Jenny's glass

Then the fraction of the total that is syrup is ...

  (1/2)/(3) = 1/6 . . . . of the combined mix is syrup