Question

100/225 square feet of your bakery will be used as your storefront, where customers come to visit. the rest will be for storage and baking. In simplest form, what fraction of the space will be for storage and baking?

Someone's work

(225-110)/225

125/225

5/9


how did you get (225-110)? if it's 100/225

Answer 1

Okay, so the answer is 5/9. “Someone” was correct. The subtracting of 100 from 225 came from the 100 already being used out of that 225. If you subtract that, you’re left with how much space left. Place those back into the fraction and simplify and you get our answer.

Answer 2

Answer: 5/9 will be the fraction of the space will be for storage and baking.

Explanation:

Since area of bakery will be used as our storefront, where customers come to visit= 100/225

Thus, the total area of bakery = 225

And, the area will be used our storefront, where customers come to visit= 100

So, the remaining area which is used for storage and baking = 225 - 100 =125

So the part of area which is used for storage and baking= the remaining area which is used for storage and baking/ total area

=125/225= 5/9

which is the simplest form.