Tina’s life in the city

Question

If Tina just turned 18, and she lived 4/9 of her life in the city, how many years did Tina live in the city?

Answer 1

Good Morning, Alisa,

To determine the number of years Tina lived in the city, you must multiply her age by the amount of time she lived in the city which is stated in the problem as 4/9. Therefore:

18 * 4/9 =

Alisa, you will notice that the number 18, is the exact same as 18/1 which you will multiply 4/9's by.

Therefore:

18/1 * 4/9 =

Please notice that the denominator of the second fraction is 9, and also note that 9 goes into 18 the numerator of first fraction twice.,

When doing this you are now left with the following:

2/1 * 4/1 = 8

Please note that we simply multiply the numerators and denominators, meaning you will multiply 2 and 4 - the numerators - and 1 and 1 - the denominators, leaving you with 8.

Finally, one way to check your work is to multiply 5/9 by 18, Doing so, allows you to determine the number of years Tina did not live in the city? Why? Because if Tina lived 4/9 of her life in the city, then the remainder of her life - 5/9 - is the number of years Tina lived outside of the city, right? (4/9 + 5/9 = 9/9 which equals 1).

5/9 * 18/1 = 5 *18/9*1 = 90/9 which is the exact same as 10. Also, please note: we could easily use the same method I initially used in the first part of the solution. Do you remember what we did then? We divided the denominator of one fraction into the numerator of the other fraction. Beginning with 5/9 * 18/1, we simply divide the 9 into the eighteen which provides the following result: 5/1 * 2/1 which equals 10. When we add the ten to the eight, we arrive at 18 which accounts for Tina's entire life while checking our previous answer.

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