Dana colored 1/6 of her picture, and Brendan colored 1/4 of his picture. Who colored more?

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Barney V.
Jan 21, 2017

Brenden colored more.

Explanation:

#1/6,1/4#

#=cancel4^1/cancel24^6,cancel6^1/cancel24^4#

#:. 1/4>1/6#

Annie
Jan 21, 2017

Unless we know the sizes of the pictures we cannot say who did the most colouring

Explanation:

#1/4>1/6# so if the pictures are the same size Brendan coloured more than Dana.
But if Dana's picture was say 200#cm^2# then Dana coloured #1/6 of 200# which is 33.4#cm^2#
And if Brendan's picture is 100#cm^2# then he coloured #1/4of 100# which is 25#cm^2#

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