Question

A bag of marbles contains 15 blue marbles and 25 green marbles. Which of the following shows the fraction of green marbles in the bag?

Answer 1

In total, there are 40 marbles. 25 of those marbles are green. What I did was divide the number of green marbles by fourth, the total number of marbles. (25/40) You should come up with 0.625. Then you convert the decimal into a fraction. 5/8 is equivalent to 0.625. Thus, 5/8 of the marbles are green.

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Answer 2

5/8.

Explanation:

we first have to find the total amount of marbles in the bag by adding the blue and green marbles.

15 + 25 = 40

40 is the total.

to get the fraction of green marbles, we do 25 over the total number of marbles,

that is....... 25/40.....then we simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and the denominator with a common divisor, which will be 5.

25 ÷ 5 = 5

40 ÷ 5 = 8

hence..... 5/8.