Question

20) What fraction of the square is shaded if the line inside divides the square into two equal parts?

Answer 1

Answer:

the bottom one is 1/2 which is a equal so the bottom one

Answer 2

Answer:

3/8 of the area is shaded

Step-by-step explanation:

this can be determined by deviding the total shape into parts and determining those parts

so we see the top right 1/4 of the shape has a square that is shaded, with the triangle only covering 1/2 of this shape becuase the hypotenuse ((diagnal edge of a right triangle)) devides the square in half

beings that 1/2 of the 1/4 square is shaded, we know that in reation to the whole shape that the small shaded area is equal to 1/8 ((1/2 ÷ 1/4 = 1/8))

same can be said for the bottum shape, with the bottum half of the whole shape half covered we can determine its total shaded area in relation to the shape ((1/2 ÷ 1/2 = 1/4))

the left top shape is completely unshaded so we wont need to calculate any shadded area into the equation

with the total shape covered by 1/4 + 1/8 we can find the least common denominator between the two fractions to get a simplifide answer for the total shaded area

1/4 = 2/8
2/8 + 1/8 = 3/8

this leaves 5/8 of the shape unshaded