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What is 2/3 × 9?
Answer
6
2/3 × 9 = (2 × 9)/3 = 18/3 = 6. Fractions represent parts of wholes and are fundamental to mathematics, cooking, construction, medicine, and financial calculations.
💡 Did you know?
Medieval cooks used fraction math to scale recipes—halving ingredients by multiplying fractions was one of the first practical uses of advanced mathematics in daily life.
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Topics
- fractions
- arithmetic
- multiplication
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