a snapshot is taken at a busy intersection and analysed. it shows that 16 people are in personl vehicles, 56 people are in buses, and 24 are walking. what fraction (in lowest terms) of the people are in vehicles?

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Jaylene

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13 February, 08:46

a snapshot is taken at a busy intersection and analysed. it shows that 16 people are in personl vehicles, 56 people are in buses, and 24 are walking. what fraction (in lowest terms) of the people are in vehicles?

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Patricky · Answer 1

3/4, or three quarters of people are on vehicles.

Step-by-step explanation:

solution 1:find the number of vehicles

personal vehicles and buses are both vehicles so we add the number, 16 and 56 to get a total of 72 people on vehicles. the total number of people there is 16+56+24 and this is 96. now we express this as a fraction and get 72/96. we simplify by dividing 24 from both top and bottom to get 3/4.

solution 2:find the number of people walking and subtract.

24 are walking out of the 96. this means 1/4 people are walking and the rest are on vehicles. 1 - 1/4 is 3/4, so 3/4 people are on vehicles.