Aprize was awarded to 56 women and 642 men.
a. what fraction of the prize winners were women?
b. what fraction were men?
simplify each plz

a) of the prize winners were women.

b) of the prize winners were men.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Prize awarded to women = 56

Prize awarded to men = 642

we need to find;

a. fraction of the prize winners were women

b. fraction were men

Solution:

First we will find the Total prize awarded.

Total Prize awarded is equal to sum of Prize awarded to women and Prize awarded to men.

framing in equation form we get;

Total Prize awarded =

Now we need to find the fraction of prize winners were women.

to find the fraction of prize winners were women we will divided Prize awarded to women from Total Prize awarded we get;

fraction of the prize winners were women =

a) Hence of the prize winners were women.

Now we can say that;

to find the fraction of prize winners were men we will divided Prize awarded to men from Total Prize awarded we get;

fraction of the prize winners were men =

b) Hence of the prize winners were men.

0.6, 3/5, and 6% are the 3 same portion.

but, when they're all changed to a decimal they would equal to 0.6.

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