Question

Ghazal, Geet, Garima, Geeta, Rashmi and Kiran decide to play Antakshari. The girls are in the first team and the rest are in the second team. What fraction in the first team?

Answer 1

Hint: To solve this question, the very first step will be to identify who of the given people are girls and who are boys. This will be identified on the basis of their names. Once we are positive on the gender of the people involved in the game of Antakshari, we will form two teams, one formed exclusively of girls and other exclusively made of boys. Then, to find the fraction, we will divide the number of members in the first team, which is made exclusively girls, by the total number of players involved in the game of Antakshari.

Complete step by step answer:
The people who are involved in the game of Antakshari are Ghazal, Geet, Garima, Geeta, Rashmi and Kiran.
Ghazal is a boy.
The names Geet and Kiran are unisexual name and one cannot say if it’s a boy or a girl.
We can guess that Garima, Geeta and Rashmi are positively girls on the basis of our knowledge of the Indian names.
We also know that the number of players in each team of Antakshari are usually equal.
Therefore, we can guess that Ghazal, Geet and Kiran are boys.
It is given to us that the first team is made exclusively of girls.
Thus, Garima, Geeta and Rashmi are in a single team. So, the number of players in the first team is 3.
Now, to find the fraction, we need to find the quotient of the number of players in the first team and the total number of players.
Therefore, the fraction of the first team is $\dfrac{3}{6}=\dfrac{1}{2}$.

Note: The given information may be interpreted in different ways by different people, based on their knowledge of the Indian names. Thus, the given solution is a sample solution. The core mathematics at the heart of the question is simple proper fractions.