Question

What fractional part of 2 days is 300 seconds?

Answer 1

Answer:

When it comes to problems of finding the fractional part of a number, we can always reword the question to get it in the form:

What is (fraction) of (number)?

This is illustrated in the cookie conundrum. We looked at the information given and put it in the form of the question:

What is 1/3 of 72?

So, why is this important? Well, we can dissect this question and turn it into an equation that we can use to solve the problem.

In the question, 'what is (fraction) of (number)', the word 'what' will always correspond to the variable, call it x, that we are trying to find, the word 'is' will always correspond to the equal sign, =, and lastly, the word 'of' will always correspond to multiplication. Putting this all together, we see that the question 'what is (fraction) of (number)' will always correspond to the equation x = (fraction)⋅(number).