Percentages and Fractions

 Percentages and Fractions

Today Monday 16th of August my class and I did a little bit of math learning about Percentages and Fractions. The question we had to solve given from our teacher it says:

Miriama is making 'ei katu. 25% of the 'ei katu has pink flowers, 1/5 of it has yellow flowers, 10% of it has white flowers and he rest of the 'ei katu is made up of leaves. Show in Percentages or Fraction how many leaves were there to make the 'ei katu.

How me and my buddy Tiara solve it :

Percentages

So we know that 25% of the flowers are pink, 1/5 are yellow flowers and 10% is white flowers.

We first convert 1/5 into a fraction which is 20%, then add 20% + 25% + 10% = 55% 

And a 'ei katu in Percentages is 100% because it a whole, so what we did next so 55% - 100% = 45% 

So what this tells me is that 45% of the 'ei katu were leaves. 

Fraction

For this we will have to first convert 25% and 10% into a fraction.

25% = 1/4

10% = 1/10

Then you'll have to add up 1/4 + 1/10 + 1/5 however if you know how to solve your fraction you'll already know that you can't. So you'll have to use your timetable and see if denominator in the fraction have a connections. And the number in the timetables the denominator has a connection with is 20 because 4x5=20 and 5x4=20 and 2x10=20.

(Here is a little drawing of part of the work to make it a bit easier for me to explain.)

In Fraction the Answer will be 9/20.

GOOD BYE :)