Sam cut a flat wooden board into fourths. He used three of the pieces as backgrounds for posters. He used equal pieces of the leftover board as backgrounds for 5 photos. What fraction of the original board did he use for each photo background? Enter your answer in the boxes.

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Kaleb Villegas

Mathematics

4 July, 02:33

Sam cut a flat wooden board into fourths. He used three of the pieces as backgrounds for posters. He used equal pieces of the leftover board as backgrounds for 5 photos. What fraction of the original board did he use for each photo background? Enter your answer in the boxes.

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Mia Hickman · Answer 1

To answer this question you would start with 1 whole piece and break it into 4 equal pieces. Each piece would be 1/4 of the original.

If you used 3 of these, you are left with 1/4.

Out of the 1/4 leftover, you create 5 equal-sized pieces.

1/4 divided by 5.

1/4 x 1/5 = 1/20 of the original board for each.