Question

Shivani and Kathleen are collecting clothes for a clothing drive. Kathleen collected 1/4 asmany clothes as Shivani did. If Shivani collected 4 1/4 bags of clothes, how many bags ofclothes did Kathleen collect?

Answer 1

Answer:

Kathleen collected 1 1/16 clothes

Explanation:

Given that Kathleen collected 1/4 as many clothes as Shivani did.

Let the number of clothes Shivani collected be represented by x

Then Kathleen collected

$\frac{1}{4}x$

Since Shivani collected 4 1/4 bags

It means he collected 17/4 bags.

Kathleen collected

1/4 of 17/4

$\begin{gathered} =\frac{1}{4}\times\frac{17}{4} \\ \\ =\frac{17}{16} \end{gathered}$

Kathleen collected 17/16 clothes , this is the same as 1 1/16 clothes