Jack is making rice pudding for his family. He divides the rice pudding into 6 equal-sized servings. He adds a spoonful of whipped cream to 2 of the servings. What fraction of the rice pudding has whipped cream on top? ____/____

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Jack is making rice pudding for his family. He divides the rice pudding into 6 equal-sized servings. He adds a spoonful of whipped cream to 2 of the servings.  What fraction of the rice pudding has whipped cream on top? ____/____

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Identify servings:  Identify the total number of servings and the number of servings with whipped cream. Jack divides the pudding into 6 servings and adds whipped cream to 2 servings. Write fraction:  Write the fraction representing the servings with whipped cream. The numerator is the number of servings with whipped cream (2), and the denominator is the total number of servings (6). Simplify fraction:  Simplify the fraction 2/6. Find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of 2 and 6, which is 2. Divide both the numerator and the denominator by the GCF: (2/2)/(6/2) = 1/3.

Jack is making rice pudding for his family. He divides the rice pudding into $6$ equal-sized servings. He adds a spoonful of whipped cream to $2$ of the servings. $\newline$ What fraction of the rice pudding has whipped cream on top? $\newline$ /

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