yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Comparing fractions word problems


4m read
·Nov 10, 2024

We're told that Katie made a table to show how much time she spent on homework last week. So, we can see the different subjects and then how much she spent in terms of hours.

So, on math, she spent three-fourths of an hour, reading seven-eighths of an hour, writing three-sixths of an hour, and then science five-tenths of an hour. They ask us on which activities did Katie spend more than two-thirds of an hour. So, pause this video and see if you can figure that out.

All right, so we essentially have to figure out which of these fractions are greater than two-thirds of an hour or which are greater than two-thirds. This is all in terms of hours.

First, let's just think about representing two-thirds. Let me do it like this, and I'm going to hand-draw it so it's not going to be perfect. If this is a hole right over here, I could split it into three equal sections. So, I'm going to try to do that. Let me see, does that look about right? So, three equal sections, so that would be a third, that would be a third, and then that would be a third.

Then, two-thirds would be two of them, so I'll pick these first two. Well, it doesn't have to be those first two. So, that's one third and then two thirds.

Now, let's see if we can draw a similar visual for each of these. So, what about three-fourths? Once again, let's make this a whole. Now, if I'm going to think in terms of fourths, I have to divide it into four equal sections.

So, let's see, if I divide it, that'll be two equal sections, and then I could divide each of those into two equal sections. So, let's see, maybe something like this and then like this. So, it's hand-drawn, but these are four equal sections.

This would be a fourth, that would be a fourth, and that would be a fourth, and that would be a fourth. Four fourths make a hole, so three of those fourths would be one, two, and then three.

You can see, and I've drawn it pretty close; it's not perfect because it's hand-drawn, but you can see that three-fourths is more of a whole than two-thirds. It's greater than two-thirds. So, Katie spent more than two-thirds of an hour on math because three-fourths is greater than two-thirds.

I like this one right over there. I'll just put a square circle around the ones that she spent that extra time on or that are greater than two-thirds of an hour.

Now, let's think about reading, which is seven-eighths. To compare that, I will once again make a hole here, and then I want to think about seven-eighths.

So, I'm going to split it into eight equal sections. Let's see, that will split into two equal sections, and then I can go to four equal sections, and then if I split each of those into two, this would be eight equal sections.

So, it looks something like this—not perfect, but I think it will get the job done. Each of these are an eighth, so seven-eighths are going to be one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven eighths.

Clearly, once again, it's greater than our two-thirds that we have in purple. So, she spent more than two-thirds of an hour on reading.

Now, what about writing three-sixths? What would that look like? Well, I'll do another one right over here. So, if that is a hole, well actually, let me split it into thirds first. Since we already have a bit of a reference there, we can look up there, and we can see those are thirds.

If we split each of those into two, we're going to have six because we'll have six equal sections. So, it would look something like that. Then, three of those six—well, that's one, two, and three.

So, we can see that three-sixths is less than two-thirds, so I'm not going to circle that one. She didn't spend more than two-thirds of an hour on writing.

And then last but not least, science five-tenths. Once again, we can make a hole here, and let's see, I want to do it into ten equal sections. So, that's two equal sections.

Then each of these I can do into five equal sections. Let's see, one, two, three, four, five. I can do a little bit neater than that. Three, four, and five. Then one, two, three, four, and five.

I can make it a little bit neater, but I think this will get us to where we need to be. So, these are each a tenth. I could write 1/10, 1/10. I could do that for all ten of these, but we care about five of these tenths.

So, one, two, three, four, five of those tenths. And notice five-tenths is the exact same thing as three-sixths. Like three-sixths, it is less than two-thirds.

So, which activities did Katie spend more than two-thirds of an hour on? Clearly, math and reading.

More Articles

View All
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger: Margin of Safety
Mr. Buffett and Mr. Munger, I’m Mark Rybnikov from Melbourne, Australia. I just wanted to ask you, how do you judge the right margin of safety to use when investing in various common stocks? For example, in a dominant, long-standing, stable business, wou…
12 STOIC PRINCIPLES FOR IMMEDIATE LIFE TRANSFORMATION | STOICISM INSIGHTS
Welcome back to Stoicism Insights, your go-to destination for timeless wisdom and practical life lessons inspired by the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Today, we have something special in store for you. Prepare to embark on a journey of self-discovery, r…
Why Trees Are Taller Than They Need To Be
Have you ever noticed how badly people behave when they are collecting their luggage at the airport? I mean, they all cluster right up against the carousel so people behind them can’t see their bags. And then when you do spot your bag, you have to push th…
Crypto Will Be The 12th Sector of The S&P! | Bitcoin 2022
[Music] It’s pretty chaotic here on the first day because nobody knows where to go. There’s 50,000 people showing. The first day probably about 250,000 by the time this is over, and it’s really going to be big this year because there’s so many institution…
Reimagining Dinosaurs | National Geographic
Hello, um, thank you all, uh, so much for um watching this live stream. My name is Michael Greshko. I’m a science writer at National Geographic and the author of the October 2020 cover story, Reimagining Dinosaurs, uh, to talk with us about the latest adv…
Writing expressions with parentheses | 6th grade | Khan Academy
We have two different statements written in English that I would like you to pause this video and try to write as an algebraic expression. All right, now let’s work on this first one. So you might be tempted to say, “All right, I have five, so let me jus…