Mary painted four out of eight equal parts of a posterboard blue. Jared painted two out of four equal parts of the same size poster board red. Write fractions to show which part of the posterboard each person painted?

1 Answer
Apr 20, 2018

1/2 and 1/2

Explanation:

Mary painted four out eight parts of the poster board, or 4/8. Simplified, this is 1/2. Jared painted two out of four parts of the poster board, or 2/4. Simplified, this is 1/2.