Question

Ms.Groves has trays of paint for students in her art class.each tray has 5 colors.one of the colors is purple.what fraction of the colors in 20 trays is purple?

Answer 1

Answer: Fraction of purple color is 1/5

Explanation:

Number of color in 1 tray = 5

Number of colors in 20 trays = 20x5 = 100

Since each tray has purple color

so number of purple color = 20

Fraction for purple color = number of purple color/total number of colors

`\\(20)/(100) =(1)/(5)`

Answer 2

So we need to find the fraction of many times does purple show up in 20 trays in which every tray has 5 colors. To find the answer we need to find the overall number of all colors and that is 20 trays * 5 colors and that equals to 100 colors. So purple shows 20 times and 20/100 is 1/5 when we simplify the fraction.