Question

5/8 of a rectangle is coloured red. Damien cuts this red part into a number of pieces so that each pieces is 1/16 of the whole rectangle. If the area of the rectangle is 48 square centimeters, what is the area of each pieces?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

area of rectangle =48

1/16 of rectangle = 48/16=3 = area of each piece

5/8 of rectangle =5/8×48=30

30sq cm is area of rectangle that is red

no. of pieces of red 30/3=10 pieces

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