Question

Nina buys a new rug that matches three colors in her bedroom. The rug is a rectangle. There are eight squares on the rug. Four-eighths of the squares are green. One-fourth of the squares are purple. Are there more green squares or purple squares on the rug? The rest of the squares are blue. How many blue squares are on the rug? Use numbers and symbols to show your mathematical thinking

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Answer 1

Answer: More green squares. Also 3 blue squares on the rug.

Explanation:

The question said the rug is a rectangle. There are also 8 squares on the rug. 4 squares are already taken by green squares. Proof of this is in the fraction itself: 4/8. so out of 8 squares, green occupies 4. We now have 4 squares left.

Purple occupies 1/4. That means we now have 3 squares left. Therefore, the remaining 3 squares are blue.

Answer: 3 blue squares.

In fraction terms, blue occupies 3/8ths of the rectangular rug.