Question

In an election, for every 4 people who voted for Mr. Stone, 1 person voted for Mr. Barker

What fraction of votes did Mr. Stone receive?

Answer 1

from the information given, you can think of it like this, from all the people who voted, you can split them up into groups as follows:
4 votes for Stone, 1 vote for Barker
4 votes for Stone, 1 vote for Barker
4 votes for Stone, 1 vote for Barker
...

Answer 2

so in each group, we have 5 people. so what fraction of the group voted for Stone?

Answer 3

1/5?

Answer 4

how many people in each group of 5 voted for Stone?

Answer 5

4?

Answer 6

correct

Answer 7

yay!

Answer 8

so that means 4 out of every 5 voted for Stone. you got it! well done!

Answer 9

Thank you!

Answer 10

yw