Question

Johan buys three flats of flowers he plants 2/5 of the flowers and then divides the remaining flowers amongst five friends. What fraction of the flat of flowers does each of Johahn's friends get?

Answer 1

We have to calculate the remaining, or the supplanted flower fraction.
Remaining =1-2/5=(5-2)/5=3/5.

Now, we calculate the fraction of the flat of flowers get by each friend.

Fraction get by each friend=remaining/number of friends
Fraction get by each friend=(3/5)/5=3/25

Answer: 3/25 flat of flowers are got by each friend

Answer 2

Each friend will get
`(9)/(25)` of the flat of flowers.

Explanation:

Johan buys 3 flats of flowers.

He plants
`(2)/(5)`th of the flowers, then the remaining flowers = 3 -
`(2)/(5)* 3`

=
`(9)/(5)`

Now he divides the remaining flowers among 5 friends.

So each friend gets the fraction of flowers =
`\frac{\text{Remaining flowers}}{\text{Number of friends}}`

=
`((9)/(5) )/(5)`

=
`(9)/(25)`

Therefore, each of Johan's friend will get
`(9)/(25)` of the flat of flowers.