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Question

There are 10 periods of half an hour per day from Monday to Friday. On Wednesdays, one hour is allocated for mathematical literacy. Determine the fraction of the total number of periods that are used for mathematical literacy on Wednesdays

Answer 1

From the problem above, we know that there are 10 periods per day and there are 5 days a week being considered. That means that there are 50 half hour periods per week. We also know that on Wednesday’s one hour or 2 half hour periods are allocated for mathematical literacy. So if we take our 2 periods that are used for mathematical literacy and divide by our total number of periods we get 2/50 which reduces to 1/25

Answer: 1/25