Yesterday, Leon's Doughnut Shop sold $\frac{1}{3}$ as many chocolate doughnuts as cinnamon doughnuts. If they sold $2$ 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, Leon's Doughnut Shop sold

\frac{1}{3}

as many chocolate doughnuts as cinnamon doughnuts. If they sold

2

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 and Trays: Step $1$ : Identify the relationship and total trays of cinnamon doughnuts sold. $\newline$ Leon's sold $\frac{1}{3}$ as many chocolate doughnuts as cinnamon doughnuts. They sold $2$ trays of cinnamon doughnuts. $\newline$ Calculation: $2$ trays of cinnamon doughnuts.
Calculate Chocolate Doughnut Trays: Step $2$ : Calculate the number of chocolate doughnut trays sold. $\newline$ Since the chocolate doughnuts are $\frac{1}{3}$ of the cinnamon, multiply the number of cinnamon trays by $\frac{1}{3}$ . $\newline$ Calculation: $2$ trays $\times \frac{1}{3} = \frac{2}{3}$ tray.