Question

Tamera earned an A on 5/8 of her spelling tests.Of those spelling tests,she earned a perfect score on 1/5 of them.

On what fraction of tamera's total spelling tests did she earn a perfect score?
If Tamera took 32 spelling test,on how many did she earn a perfect score?

Answer 1

1/8

4

Explanation:

She got an A on 5/8 of all tests.

She got a perfect score on 1/5 of the 5/8.

1/5 * 5/8 = 5/40 = 1/8

She took a total of 32 tests.

1/8 * 32 = 4

Answer:

1/8

4

Answer 2

To answer this, you would read what is being asked very carefully and then represent it using math. The first question asks what fraction of her total spelling test did she earn a perfect score. Going back to the part of the sentence that talks about a perfect score you will see that it says she earned a perfect score on 1/5 of them(referring to the Number of tests she earned an A on). The fraction of tests she earned an a on was five eights. This means that 1/5 of the 5/8 is how many she scored perfect on. Adding to that, 1/5 of the 5/8 of all 32 tests she took she scored a perfect score on. In math this is represented by 1/5 x 5/8 x 32. Cross cancel the 5s and make 32 a 4 and the 8 a 1, and then multiply all numerators across the top and all denominators across the bottom to get 4/1, or 4 perfect scores.