Question

Eff scored a 23/25 on his math test, Maria scored 21/24 on her math test and Jake scored 17/20 on his math test. Who had the highest score? Explain how you know.

Answer 1

Eff had the highest score.

Explanation:

The approach to determine who get the same score is converting each fraction to an arbitrary scale, which is 100 for this problem. Now, the conversions are presented below:

Eff

`x = (23)/(25)* 100`

`x = 92`

Maria

`x = (21)/(24)* 100`

`x = 87.5`

Jake

`x = (17)/(20)* 100`

`x = 85`

Eff had the highest score.

Answer 2

Eff

Explanation:

Fraction is a part of a whole, telling us how many parts of a whole we have. It can be converted to percentage or decimal.

Eff scored a 23/25 on his math test. Converting to percentage, eff score = 23/25 * 100% = 92%

Maria scored 21/24 on her math test. Converting to percentage:

Maria score = 21/24 * 100% = 87.5%

Jake scored 17/20 on his math test, converting to percentage:

Jake score = 17/20 * 100% = 85%

The person with the highest score has the highest percentage which is Eff with 92%.