To earn money for this vacation, grayson works at a local shop on weekends. his job is to cut bricks of fudge into 0.25 pound squares. if he cuts 36 equal-sized squares on saturday, how many pounds of fudge has grayson cut?

If each square brick cut is equal to .25 pounds and in total he cuts 36 equal sized squares, then you just need to multiply .25 by 36. One way to look at it is, what is 25% of 36. Whether or not you multiply by 25% or .25 the answer will be 9. Grayson has cut 9 pounds of fudge.