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In a particular parking lot with 24 cars in it, 18 are blue. What fraction of the cars in the parking lot are blue?

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Answer:

3/4

Explanation:

If you do a ratio, 18 blue cars to 24 total cars, that would be 18:24. If you simplify that, then you would be left with 3:4. So for every 4 cars, 3 are blue. So 3/4 of the cars in the parking lot are blue.

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