Question

Jada has a vegetable garden. Two-thirds of the garden is made up of tomato plants. Four-fifths of the tomato plants are beefsteak tomatoes. What portion of the garden is made up of beefsteak tomatoes?​

Answer 1

8/15

Explanation:

Answer 2

8/15

Explanation:

The problem states that Jada has a vegetable garden made up of 2/3 tomato plants, of which 4/5 are beefsteak tomatoes. Therefore, to determine the portion of the garden that is made up of beefsteak tomatoes, both fractions must be unified in the same common divisor.

Thus, since the common least multiple of 3 and 5 is 15 (3 x 5), the fraction 2/3 can be calculated as 10/15. In turn, of those 10, 4/5 are beefsteak tomatoes, which can be calculated as 8/10, since the common lower multiple of 5 and 10 is exactly 10.

Therefore, 8/15 of Jada's vegetable garden are beefsteak tomatoes.