Question

Matt is painting a mural on a 1-square meter section of a wall. He has completed a rectangular part of the mural that is four sixths of a meter wide and two fifths of a meter tall. What part of the mural has been completed?

Answer 1

Answer: 8/30 (or eight thirteenths) in fraction form, and 26/66% in percentage form :)

Answer 2

26.66%

Explanation:

In order to calculate how much of the mural has been completed, we need to find the area of the rectangle. Since both the length and the width have been provided we simply multiply these values together and to find the amount of the mural that has been completed...

`(4)/(6) * (2)/(5) = (8)/(30)` or 0.2666
`m^(2)`

We can see that 0.2666
`m^(2)` have been completed. Now we can divide this by the total size of the mural to calculate the percent that is completed.

0.26666
`m^(2)` / 1
`m^(2)` = 0.2666 ... multiply by 100 to get percent value

0.2666 * 100 = 26.66%

Finally, we can see that a total of 26.66% of the mural has been completed.