Question

About 12500 icebergs break away from Greenland each year of these about 375 float onto the Atlantic Ocean what fraction of the icebergs float onto the Atlantic Ocean ? Write your answer for part a as a decimal? What fraction of the icebergs do not float onto Atlantic?

Answer 1

Since we want to know how many of 375 goes into 12500, we do 375/12500=1/4=0.25

For what doesn't, we can do 1-1/4=3/4