Question

Carl has 16 cd’s and 1/4 of them are classical music how many cd’s are classical? How many are not?

Answer 1

4

Explanation:

since the fraction is 1/4 you can multiply 4 by 4 and get sixteen and 4x1=4

Answer 2

4 of them are classical

12 of them are not

Explanation:

You take the 1/4 x 16 which equals to 4

4 becomes the number of classical music cd's

then you take 16-4 =12

12 becomes the number of cd's which are not classical