Question

In Ms. Berkeley’s classroom 2/5 of the students play chess of the students to play chess 5/6 also play sudoku. if there are 30 students in Ms Barclays class how many play chess and sudoku?

Answer 1

10 students play chess and sudoku,
30*2/5 is 12, out of 12; the number of students that play chess,5/6 play sudoku.
So..12*5/6 is 10 and that is the number of students that play both sudoku and chess.

Answer 2

There is 10 students that play chess and sudoku.

Explanation:

In this case we have to use the fractions to multiply the total of the students and find what is asked, first we have to find how much students play chess, this is:

`30*(2)/(5) =12`

With this 12 students play chess, now from this students 5/6 play Sudoku, this is:

`12*(5)/(6) =10`

There is 10 students that play chess and sudoku.