In art class, Kerion is coloring a pattern where half of the squares on her paper are being colored blue. Of the blue squares, 1/3 of them will also have strip

Question

In art class, Kerion is coloring a pattern where half of the squares on her paper are being colored blue. Of the blue squares, 1/3 of them will also have stripes. What fraction of squares will be blue with stripes?

Which operation will you use for this problem (circle one)?

+ – x ÷

Solution:

Answer 1

Hi Rosalba!

You will use subtraction to solve this problem because you will take 1/2 and subtract 1/3. You will have to create a common base to do this, your problem should end up being 6/12 - 4/12 which equals 2/12. When you reduce this your answer is 1/6 of the squares.