Figure it out

This week I have made another figure it out about adding fractions and comparing fractions I have made a google doc about it.

Figure it out: Getting to fractions

1 - The Hohepa and McLean families are both driving from Morrinsville to Whakatane. Both the McLean and Hohepa family cars’ are one 20th of the journey apart (8 km). The way I did this was by simplifying the fraction from 120 to 12 and after that I found out that 8 was a key number in this equation being 8 x 15 = 120 and 8 x 16 = 128 and the whole journey is 8 x 20 = 160.

2 - Kim, Tim and Vim go shares in a startup technology company. Kim puts up 2⁄5 of the money, Tim puts up one third and Vim puts up the rest. How much of the company should Vim own? Vim should own nothing because ⅖ + ⅓ = 1 whole so really Vim should own nothing!


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