Question

there are 8 rows of chairs in the auditorium.three of the rows are empty. what fraction of the rows are empty?

Answer 1

3/8 of the rows are empty. The three rows that are empty (3) would be in the numerator while the total amount of rows (8) would be in the denominator.

Answer 2

The fraction of the empty rows would be 3/8. The number of the empty rows which is 3 will be your numerator while the total number of rows which is 8, will be your denominator. In percentage form, 37.5% of the rows are empty.