PSLE Lynn has a number of staplers in three colours: yellow, purple and green.
12 of the staplers are yellow. The number of yellow staplers is four times the number of purple staplers. What fraction of the staplers is green?
Yellow |
Purple |
Green |
Total |
1x4 |
1x4 |
2x4 |
4x1 |
1x1 |
|
|
4 u |
1 u |
3 u |
8 u |
Number of yellow staplers is the repeated identity.
Make the number of yellow staplers the same.
LCM of 1 and 4 = 4
Number of green staplers
= 8 u - 4 u - 1 u
= 3 u
Fraction of the staplers that is green
=
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