PSLE Shannon has a number of pens in three colours: yellow, blue and brown.
12 of the pens are yellow. The number of yellow pens is four times the number of blue pens. What fraction of the pens is brown?
Yellow |
Blue |
Brown |
Total |
1x4 |
1x4 |
2x4 |
4x1 |
1x1 |
|
|
4 u |
1 u |
3 u |
8 u |
Number of yellow pens is the repeated identity.
Make the number of yellow pens the same.
LCM of 1 and 4 = 4
Number of brown pens
= 8 u - 4 u - 1 u
= 3 u
Fraction of the pens that is brown
=
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