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INSTRUCTIONS

Identify Sets uses square and round cookies to demonstrate a fractional part of a group of things. The following illustration was made from Identify Sets:

7/9 Picture

The denominator 9 in the fraction 7/9 ths shows the total number of cookies in the picture. The numerator 7 in the fraction 7/9 ths tells the number of square cookies in the picture.

Therefore, since the question is "What fraction of the cookies are square?" , we will use the fraction 7/9 ths because 7 of the 9 cookies are square cookies.

The line between the numerator and denominator is known as the fraction bar. It is also called the division bar.

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