mathematics question

Question

mary has 18 beads, and 6 of them are red. the rest are blue. what fraction of the beads are blue?

Answer 1

If there are 18 total beads, 6 are red, and the rest are blue, that means that there are 12 blue beads. (18-6=12).

So now we can ask ourselves 12 is what fraction of 18? This equation looks like:

18x=12

-18 /18

x=12/18

x=2/3