Hassem and his family cut an apple pie into 6 equal slices and a blueberry pie into 12 equal slices. They ate%C2%A0 56 %C2%A0of the apple pie. If they ate the same fraction of the blueberry pie, how many slices of the blueberry pie did they eat? %C2%A0 NOTE:%C2%A0In the bottom right corner of each question, you will see an option to check answer. Click this to check your answer before moving on to the next question. It will not tell you the correct answer, but it will tell you if the answer you selected is correct. You can use this feature twice per question. (1 point) Responses 9 slices 9 slices 5 slices 5 slices 12 slices 12 slices 10 slices 10 slices

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Hassem and his family cut an apple pie into 6 equal slices and a blueberry pie into 12 equal slices. They ate%C2%A0 56  %C2%A0of the apple pie. If they ate the same fraction of the blueberry pie, how many slices of the blueberry pie did they eat?  %C2%A0  NOTE:%C2%A0In the bottom right corner of each question, you will see an option to check answer. Click this to check your answer before moving on to the next question. It will not tell you the correct answer, but it will tell you if the answer you selected is correct. You can use this feature twice per question.  (1 point) Responses  9 slices 9 slices  5 slices 5 slices  12 slices 12 slices  10 slices 10 slices

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To find out how many slices of the blueberry pie Hassem and his family ate, we first need to determine how many slices of the apple pie they consumed.

The apple pie is cut into 6 equal slices, and they ate 56% of it. The calculation for the number of slices they ate is as follows:

\[ \text{Slices eaten from apple pie} = 0.56 \times 6 = 3.36 \text{ slices} \]

Since they ate the same fraction of the blueberry pie, we need to determine how many slices they ate from the blueberry pie which is cut into 12 equal slices.

The fraction eaten is the same (56%). So we calculate:

\[ \text{Slices eaten from blueberry pie} = 0.56 \times 12 = 6.72 \text{ slices} \]

Since it's not practical to eat a fraction of a slice, we recognize that they probably can't actually eat a precise amount here, leading us to confirm again that they ate the same fraction of the blueberry pie.

However, since the answers provided are all whole numbers and relate to combining both aspects of the pies into a singular value, let's check the understanding of whole numbers for blueberry pie.

Since 56% of 12 slices is 6.72 slices, if you look at the closest whole number, it appears 7 might indicate rounding but based on the options provided of distinctly whole numbers, we consider whole slices being consumed:

Thus making it logical that if they follow patterns (and rounding naturally leads) you'd check against slices available.

Applying the idea yields overall consideration:

6 and consideration towards tested rounding might mislead immediate thought towards total whole consumption.

Final consumption check would still list:

\[ 6 \text{ would not round perfectly toward whole options so } 7 slices would fit near calculation but instructions imply aim for closest whole thus } \]

Hence, wise from integral fraction yield closest whole:

The check against options available would yield: 5 would be less, 9 would naturally yield rounding better.

By careful reiteration, we might consider reverting whole checks, but formal stand leads consensus...

Thus, the final slices of blueberry pie they ate aligns balanced check through calculated means;

So, the answer is clarified consistently and feels precise leading choice of:

6 slices.

Please confirm against whole checks otherwise indicating choice check lead on rounding but ensure correct against whole number post acculture versus closer(s).