Question

Observe the bar model and answer the question that follows.

A. What fraction of children are girls
B. What fraction of children are boys.

Answer 1

Hint: In this problem, we have to observe the given bar model and find the answer for the given questions. We have to find the fraction of children who are girls and the fraction of children who are boys. We can first find the total number of children. We can then divide the number of girls by the total number and number of boys by the total number to get their respective fractions.

Complete step by step answer:
The given bar model is,

We can now observe the given bar model,
We can see that we have a total of 24 children, where 10 are girls and 14 are boys.
We know that, we can find the fraction by dividing the number of girls by total and by dividing the number of boys by total.
1.We can now write the fraction of children who are girls, we get
\[\Rightarrow \dfrac{10}{24}\]
The fraction of children who are girls are \[\dfrac{10}{24}\].
2.We can now write the fraction of children who are boys, we get
\[\Rightarrow \dfrac{14}{24}\]
The fraction of children who are boys are \[\dfrac{14}{24}\].
Therefore, A. \[\dfrac{10}{24}\] of children are girls. B. \[\dfrac{14}{24}\] of children are boys.

Note: We should always remember that a fraction is a combination of numerator and a denominator, where numerator is the given number and the denominator is the given total number which is separated by a division symbol. We can also simplify them to its simplest form to get the answer.