Question

A bowl filled with lollypops is 3/4 full. 2/5 of these lollypops are green. What fraction of the filled bowl are the green lollipops?

Answer 1

3/10 of the filled bowl represents green lollypops.

To find the fraction of the filled bowl that represents the green lollipops, you can multiply the fraction of the bowl that is filled by the fraction of lollypops that are green.

`=(3)/(4)* (2)/(5)`

Multiplying the numerators and denominators:

`=(3*2)/(4* 5)=(6)/(20)`

Now, you can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor, which is 2:

`=(6/2)/(20/2) = (3)/(10)`