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Ms.Groves has trays of paint for students in her art class. Each that has 5 colors. One of the colors is purple.What fraction of the colors in 20 trays is purple?
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Ms.Groves has trays of paint for students in her art class. Each that has 5 colors. One of the colors is purple.What fraction of the colors in 20 trays is purple?

User Paritosh
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1 out of 5 colours is purple.
So you need to divide the 20 trays by 5 which is 4 and 4 is 1/5 of 20
User Florent Champigny
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each has 5 colors
one is purple
1/5 is prurple
doesn't matter how many, 1 out of every 5 colors is purple
assuming that all of them have 1 color purple on it

1/5 is answer
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