Yesterday, Jessica's Doughnut Shop sold $\frac{1}{2}$ as many chocolate doughnuts as cinnamon doughnuts. If they sold $3$ trays of cinnamon doughnuts, how many trays of chocolate doughnuts did they sell? $\newline$ Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number. $\newline$ _____ trays

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Q. Yesterday, Jessica's Doughnut Shop sold

\frac{1}{2}

as many chocolate doughnuts as cinnamon doughnuts. If they sold

3

trays of cinnamon doughnuts, how many trays of chocolate doughnuts did they sell?

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Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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_____ trays

Identify Relationship: Step $1$ : Identify the relationship between the number of trays of chocolate and cinnamon doughnuts. $\newline$ Since the shop sold $\frac{1}{2}$ as many chocolate doughnuts as cinnamon doughnuts, we use the fraction $\frac{1}{2}$ to represent this relationship.
Calculate Chocolate Doughnuts: Step $2$ : Calculate the number of trays of chocolate doughnuts. $\newline$ They sold $3$ trays of cinnamon doughnuts. To find the chocolate doughnuts, multiply $3$ trays by $\frac{1}{2}$ . $\newline$ Calculation: $3 \times \frac{1}{2} = 1.5$ trays.