Question

Dana colored 1/6 of her picture, and Brendan colored 1/4 of his picture. Who colored more?

Answer 1

Brenden colored more.

Explanation:

`1/6,1/4`

`=cancel4^1/cancel24^6,cancel6^1/cancel24^4`

`:. 1/4>1/6`

Answer 2

Unless we know the sizes of the pictures we cannot say who did the most colouring

Explanation:

`1/4>1/6` so if the pictures are the same size Brendan coloured more than Dana.
But if Dana's picture was say 200`cm^2` then Dana coloured `1/6 of 200` which is 33.4`cm^2`
And if Brendan's picture is 100`cm^2` then he coloured `1/4of 100` which is 25`cm^2`