Question

You have a 32-foot fence around a square garden. You paint 1/3 of one side of the fence. What fraction of the fence did you paint?

Answer 1

For this problem situation you are finding the amount of fence you painted in feet fraction wise.
Firstly, (assuming the 32 feet is the length) we would divide 32 by 4 to find the length of each side of the square fence.
1) 32÷4= 8
So we see that a side of the fence is 8 feet in length. Now, since the problem states that you paint 1/3 of one side of the four sided fence we you divide 8 by 3.
2) 8/3= 2.666666667
or 2.7 rounded
2.7 is the length of the fence you painted. In fraction form this would be 2 and 7/10 which would be your final answer.
3) 2 7/10