Wimberly lives 5 6 of a mile from school. Carrie lives 3 4 as far as Wimberly. Describe how far Carrie lives from school in fraction form.

Question

Wimberly lives 5 6 of a mile from school. Carrie lives 3 4 as far as Wimberly. Describe how far Carrie lives from school in fraction form.

Answer 1

Carrie lives 3/4 x 5/6, which is equal to 15/24 of a mile

Answer 2

Since Wimberly lives 5/6 of a mile from the school, we can assign W= 5/6 of a mile.

Therefore, since Carrie lives 3/4 of Wimberly's distance, C= (3/4)W.

(3/4)W= (3/4)(5/6), which by rules of fraction multiplication equals (3*5)/(4*6) (multiplying numerators by numerators and denominators by denominators), which equals 15/24. 15/24 can be simplified by a factor of 3, giving us 5/8.

Carrie lives 5/8 of a mile from the school.