Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Fraction Riddles

1. A rectangle is 1/2 red, 1/5 green, 1/10 blue and the rest yellow. How much of the rectangle is yellow? Draw the rectangle on grid paper and record the fraction that tells you which part is yellow.

2. A rectangle is 3/5 red. the rest is blue and yellow but not in equal amounts. What could the rectangle look like? Record.

3. A rectangle is 1/2 red and 1/3 blue. Also, it has one green tile and one yellow tile. What could the rectangle look like? What fractional part is green? Yellow? Record

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