Question

Ann claims that she can't show 3/4 of the following faces b/c some are big and some are small. What do you tell her?
FYI there are a total of 8 faces

Answer 1

clarify....

Answer 2

Clarify the different faces I see? Is that what you are asking?

Answer 3

There are 4 big faces, 4 small faces, and of the 4 small faces 1 has a frown

Answer 4

lol

Answer 5

Well, in that case, what you want to do is set up a proportion:

\(\frac{3}{4} = \frac{x}{8}\)

Now solve for x:

3(8) = 4x
24 = 4x
24/4 = 6

So now you have the ratio 6/8 which is equivalent to 3/4. Thus 3 of the big figures + 3 of the smaller figures represents 3/4 of the figure.

That explanation may or may not make any sense to you.

But anyway, since 6/8 = 3/4, 6 faces out of eight still represents 3/4 of the figure.

Answer 6

I thank you so much I was setting it up like 3/4 * 8/1 but I kept thinkin something is not right what is going on here but I will rewrite it to understand it, I am a hands-on learner so doing this math online can be challenging at times for me but thanks again for the breakdown