Ms. Groves has trays of paint for students in her art class. Each that has 5 colors. One of the colors is purple. What fraction of the colors in 20 trays is purple?

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Tomas

19 September, 13:18

Ms. Groves has trays of paint for students in her art class. Each that has 5 colors. One of the colors is purple. What fraction of the colors in 20 trays is purple?

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Deegan Cannon · Answer 1

1 out of 5 colours is purple.

So you need to divide the 20 trays by 5 which is 4 and 4 is 1/5 of 20

Wayne Beasley · Answer 2

Each has 5 colors

one is purple

1/5 is prurple

doesn't matter how many, 1 out of every 5 colors is purple

assuming that all of them have 1 color purple on it

1/5 is answer