at the animal shelter 4/6 of the animals are cats. of the cats 1/2 are male. what fraction of the animals at the shelter are male cats?
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Answer:
What do you think half of 4/6 is? Good guess 2/6.
You could write 2/6 in a more simplified form.
Regardless, 2/6 of the animals are male cats.
My significant other is a cat lover par excellence, and again the Quora correspondents have shocked her to the core.
She is worried that, if there were only three animals in the shelter to begin with, to get 4/6 of them each would have to be cut in half. The horror of this is beyond her ken.
She has ordered me not to read any more at Quora. She believes it is slowly eroding my moral compass.
She may be correct. I have defied her and am writing this at 2 a.m., by moonlight, ensconced in a very uncomfortable cat-basket behind the garden shed.
Step-by-step explanation:
let the total animal in the animal shelter be x
A.T.Q.
fraction of cats in the animal shelter = 4x/6
in lowest form. = 2x/3
fraction of male cats at the animal shelter = 1/2 × 2x/3
= x/3
therefore,
1/3rd fraction of the animals at the shelter are male cats.
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