Respuesta :
Given:
May painted 4 out of 8 equal parts of a poster board is blue.
Jared painted 2 out of 4 equal parts of the same sized poster board red.
May: 4/8 = 1/2 of the poster board.
Jared: 2/4 = 1/2 of the poster board.
The fractions are equal. Since the poster board is of the same size, both May and Jared painted equal parts which is 1/2 of the poster board.
The 8 and 4 only indicate the number of equal parts that are drawn on the poster board.
May painted 4 out of 8 equal parts of a poster board is blue.
Jared painted 2 out of 4 equal parts of the same sized poster board red.
May: 4/8 = 1/2 of the poster board.
Jared: 2/4 = 1/2 of the poster board.
The fractions are equal. Since the poster board is of the same size, both May and Jared painted equal parts which is 1/2 of the poster board.
The 8 and 4 only indicate the number of equal parts that are drawn on the poster board.
For this case we have to write two fractions and simplify each of them.
We have then:
For May:
[tex] \frac{4}{8} [/tex]
Simplifying we have:
[tex] \frac{\frac{4}{4}}{\frac{8}{4}} = \frac{1}{2} [/tex]
For Jared:
[tex] \frac{2}{4} [/tex]
Simplifying we have:
[tex] \frac{\frac{2}{2}}{\frac{4}{2}} = \frac{1}{2} [/tex]
We observe that both fractions have the same result.
Answer:
The fractions are the same.
See attached image to visualize the amount that each person painted.
Yellow for May
White for Jared
