Question

An enclosure at the zoo contains 16 meerkats.
6 are asleep and 10 are awake.
Find, in lowest terms, the fraction of meerkats that
are:

A.asleep B.awake

Answer 1

Asleep. 6/16 Simplified would be 3/8

Awake. 10/16 Simplified would be 5/8

How I did it was by using the amount that was asleep and awake as numerators and the TOTAL is 16 so that is the denominator.

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