Lisa's dog has 12 squeaky toys. one third of the dog's toys are squeaky toys. how many dog toys are squeaky?

The answer is that 4 dog toys are squeaky.

We are going to multiply 12 by 1/3 to find what one third of 12 is.

12*1/3

So when you multiply the numerators and denominators, you get 12/3 which can be simplified to 4.