Question

A jar is filled with red, blue, and green marbles. Half of the marbles are red. One third of the marbles are blue. One sixth of the marbles are green. What fraction of the marbles are either red or blue?


plz hurry this is due tomorrow and i asked this cause i dont get what it's asking

Answer 1

5/6 of the marbles are red or blue. Since half of the marbles are red, you can convert that to sixths which would be 3/6. You can also convert the number of blue marbles into sixths, and 1/3 is equal to 2/6. When you ad the number of blue marbles to the number of red marbles, you get 5/6. I hope this helps you understand the question better.

Answer 2

It says that 1/3 marbles are blue and 1/2 is red. The question is asking you what fraction is either red or blue. basically " write the number of red and blue marbles in fraction form" so what you should do is add 1/3 and 1/2 and get 5/6. I hope you understand.