Question

a class has 24 people and 1/6 of them have blue eyes what fraction of the class has blue eyes using 24 as the denominator

Answer 1

Multiply the amount of people in the class by the fraction of the class that has blue eyes:

$24 \times \frac{1}{6} = 4$

This is the amount of people in the class that have blue eyes.

24 as the denominator represents the total amount of people in the class. Because 4 is the amount of people that have blue eyes, you can set up a fraction with the amount of blue-eyed people as the numerator. The following fraction will be your answer:

$\frac{4}{24}$