What is the fraction for this problem?

Question

Draw 9 circles and put them into 3 equal groups. Shade 1 group.

Answer 1

Each group of circles will have 3-- 3 groups of 3 circles each is 9 circles. If you shade in one group of of 3 groups, this represents 1 out of 3 or 1/3. You can also think of this as 3 out of the total 9 circles which is 3/9. You can divide both the numerator and denominator of 3/9 by 3 so that the fraction simplifies to 1/3. Either way, the answer is 1/3.