Question

A teacher noticed 5/8 of the students were wearing either blue shorts or white shorts. Write two different ways this could be done.

Answer 1

One way you can do this problem is by saying that there is eight students and five of them are wearing blue or white.

Answer 2

One way is there could be 8 students, and 5 of them are wearing blue or white shorts. It could also be 32 students and 20 could be wearing blue or white shorts.