Mary painted four out of eight equal parts of a posterboard blue. Jared painted two out of four equal parts of the same size poster board red. Write fractions to show which part of the posterboard each person painted?

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nat
Apr 20, 2018

#1/2# and #1/2#

Explanation:

Mary painted four out eight parts of the poster board, or #4/8#. Simplified, this is #1/2#. Jared painted two out of four parts of the poster board, or #2/4#. Simplified, this is #1/2#.

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