Ali receives a weekly allowance of £15, Charlie receives £5 and Henry receives £7.50.

Question

What fraction of Ali's allowance does Charlie receive?

Also can I have the working out please.

Answer 1

I don't know how to type the pounds symbol and don't know why you'd be working out equations in pounds in the USA), but it's not important for the calculation, so we'll work without it.

 

Charlie's allowance is 5.

Ali's allowance is 15. 

 

The fraction of Ali's allowance that Charlie gets is 5/15.

You can divide both parts of the fraction by 5 to get 1/3. 

 

So Charlie gets 1/3 of Ali's allowance.