PSLE Penelope has a number of notebooks in three colours: yellow, brown and green.
311 of the notebooks are yellow. The number of yellow notebooks is four times the number of brown notebooks. What fraction of the notebooks is green?
Yellow |
Brown |
Green |
Total |
3x4 |
8x4 |
11x4 |
4x3 |
1x3 |
|
|
12 u |
3 u |
29 u |
44 u |
Number of yellow notebooks is the repeated identity.
Make the number of yellow notebooks the same.
LCM of 3 and 4 = 12
Number of green notebooks
= 44 u - 12 u - 3 u
= 29 u
Fraction of the notebooks that is green
=
2944 Answer(s):
2944