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

2 Answers
Jan 21, 2017

Brenden colored more.

Explanation:

1/6,1/4

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

:. 1/4>1/6

Jan 21, 2017

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 200cm^2 then Dana coloured 1/6 of 200 which is 33.4cm^2
And if Brendan's picture is 100cm^2 then he coloured 1/4of 100 which is 25cm^2