Question

5th grade math help!!!
Draw a circle.Shae all but 1/6 of it. What percent of the circle is NOT shaded?

Answer 1

1/6X100

Answer 2

now what

Answer 3

If you have one whole circle, let's call it's size 1. \[1 = \frac{6}{6}\]If 5/6 of that are shaded, then 1/6 is not shaded.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If you have a pizza with 6 slices, and 5 are pepperoni and 1 is sausage then...
5/6 of the pizza is pepperoni, and 1/6 of the pizza is sausage.

Does that make sense?

Answer 6

"What percent of the circle is NOT shaded?"
1/6 not shaded = 0.167
percent? 0.167*100=16.7%

Answer 7

im in 5th grade member this

Answer 8

Do you understand what I said about 6 slices of pizza?

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

Ok, say we have a pizza cut into 6 slices...

Answer 11

If 5 of these slices are pepperoni, then we can say this pizza is 5/6 ("five sixths") pepperoni. 5 pepperoni out of 6 total.

Answer 12

Make sense so far?