Question

6) James made flash cards for 5/6 of the vocabulary vocabulary words. Lauretta made 1/2 of the amount of cards that James made. What fraction of the vocabulary words did Lauretta make cards for?

Answer 1

For this question, we know James made flashcards for
`(5)/(6)` of the words.

Lauretta made
`(1)/(2)` of the amount of cards that James made.

So what we can do to find the total amount of cards Lauretta made with respect to the total amount of words, we can multiply these two values together:


`(5)/(6)* (1)/(2)= (5)/(12)`

We get this answer by multiplying straight across the fraction bars.

So now we know that Lauretta made cards for
`(5)/(12)` of the total vocabulary words.