Question

Lenox ironed 1/4 of the shirts over the weekend. She plans to split the remainder of the work equally over the next 5 evenings. If lenox has 40 shirts, how many shirts will she need to irok on Thursday and friday? Find its simplest fraction form

Answer 1

Given data:

The total numbers of shirts are T=40.

The fraction of total shirts ironed in week days are,

$(1-\frac{1}{4})T=\frac{3}{4}T$

The expression for shirt ironed in each week day is,

$\frac{1}{5}(\frac{3}{4}T)=\frac{3}{20}T$

The number of shirts ironed on thursday and friday is,

$\begin{gathered} 2(\frac{3}{20}T)=\frac{3}{10}T \\ =\frac{3}{10}(40) \\ =12 \end{gathered}$