Question

What is one third multiplied by two?

Answer 1

Hint: In the above we will simply use the basic operations of the mathematics which are multiplication and division. In the above question it is written one thirds, now the question arises what is one third. Let me tell you third is nothing, it is just a fraction number which is written in number. Now the question is what is fraction. Fractions are numerical values that are a part of the whole. If a number or a thing is divided into equal parts, then each part will be a fraction.

Complete step by step solution:
Here we have to find the value when one third is multiplied by two. We can write the one third in numbers as:
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{1}{3}$
Since we can easily see it is in fraction. The fraction has two parts one is numerator and another is denominator. The upper part of the fraction is called numerator and lower part of the fraction is called denominator.
It is also given that we have to multiply two with this fraction part. So we will multiply two with one third then it looks like in number:
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{1}{3}\times 2$
Now, the question is how to multiply them. So let me clear you, whenever we have these types of questions always multiply any given number with the numerator part of the fraction. Let me show you by multiplying the given numbers.
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{1}{3}\times 2=\dfrac{1\times 2}{3}=\dfrac{2}{3}$
We can also write the above answer in the decimal form also simply by dividing them,
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{2}{3}=0.6666....$
Hence we get our required answer.

Note: In these types of questions students may go wrong by multiplying the denominator part of the fractions with the given number$\left( \dfrac{1}{3\nearrow }\times 2 \right)$ but this is wrong , always multiply with the numerator part only as I solved above otherwise it will affect your answer.