Mathhhhhh: a fraction problem?

Question

Ok this is the problem:

Birchwood Elementary School has two newspapers, The Bugle and The Bulletin. The Bugle comes out on Tuesday and Friday. The Bulletin comes out on thursday. On what Fraction of the school week does a paper come out at Birchwood? (No school on Sat or Sun)

I know this is easy but I need help. THANK YOU

Answer 1

Hi!
Remember: "Fractions are your friends" Al Fox (my math teacher)

You have 5 days in a normal school week. out of those 5 days a paper comes out on Tues. Thurs. and Fri. so to set up a fraction you put amount you have (3) over the total amount (5) therefor your fraction is 3/5 or 0.6 or 60%
Good Luck in math!

Answer 2

The Bugle comes out on 2 of the five days and the Bulletin comes out on another day. Because they are both newspapers, you need to add them together.
2 1 3 The answer is three fifths.
--- + --- = ---
5 5 5

Answer 3

well, there are 5 days in a week. so that means that the denominator (# on the bottom) is going to be 5. If the bugle comes out on tuesday and friday that is 2 days out of the five. And the bulletin comes out on one day of the five. Since they come out on different days, they each count as a day that the newspaper comes out. So, add one and two to get three. That is the number in the numerator (top #). So now the fraction reads: 3/5
hope that helped!!

Answer 4

Regarding your first question - you multiply the denominator to make a common ratio. You are right on making 20 the common ratio and thus the common denominator. So it is 3/4 + 7/5 = ? Then you find the common denominator so it becomes 15/20 + 28/20 = ? And that equals 43/20 or 2 3/20. Your second question is more complicated a bit. You have to cross multiple. Follow me on these steps. (5x-4)/2 - (3-x)/3 You multiply (3-x) by 2 so it becomes 6-2x. You also multiply (5x-4) by 3 so it comes 15x-12. *You multiply the top left and the bottom right and than mutiply the bottom left and top right.* So now you are left with 6-2x = 15x-12 Move all x's to one side. so it equals 18=17x. Divide both sides by 17 and you are left with x= 1.0588 roughly. You plug in 1.0588 in for the x's and find the common denominator again like in the first problem we addressed. And add them. Your answer should be roughly 7.76/6 or (7+19/25)/6 *if you want to get mathically correct since no decimals in fractions.

Answer 5

Math--never my strong point.
5 school days right? So then that is 5 days during the school week.
3 days the paper comes out (2 +1 day(s))
3/5 is the fraction.
Unless I am making this way too easy and if I am then let someone else tell you. Ha Ha.
Stay with the Math though. Kicked my butt all through school until I got to college then I understood a lot more of what was going on.

Answer 6

3/5

Answer 7

The bulge is 2/5 of the 5 days because 2 days out of the 5 is 2/5. Since the birchwood only comes out on thursday it is 1/5 of the week.

Answer 8

5 days in a school week.
Newspapers come out 3 days a week.
.. Bugle on Tues & Fri; Bulletin on Thurs

Fraction: 3/5 (three out of five)

Answer 9

that is the easiest fraction problem possibly ever made in mankind, u need to start paying more attention
if u cant do this, then u need serious help

2/5+1/5= 3/5


I hope u know where i got the 5 and the 2 and the 1 and why add them up.....right?

try doing it on ur own because math is just going to get harder and harder....
Like my 8th grade algebra teacher once told me " Think Math as a train in a railroad track, the more u head, the further u seek/accomplish and once you jump off the train(give up math) then you will have a lonnnnnnnnnnng way to go. its only hurting u and nothing else

Answer 10

There are 5 school days in a school week so the answer is 2/3.